Lesson Plan Proposal on Civil Rights
1) Description: The
lesson is part of the Civil Rights Unit during the peak civil rights period.
The lesson will focus on the US’s
struggle, especially in the south, as it is connected to and part of a larger
decolonization struggle that is taking place world wide.
I will begin with producing a definition of colonization
using think pair share followed by a word splash. Once we get to a common
definition we will apply it to the US
south and look for a fit.
Following that I will give them the definitions of 1st
world, 2nd world, and 3rd world.
Next we will look at four documents and two video clips. The
first document will be the Declaration of Human Rights; the next will be the
Ebony Magazine article in the Book Testament of Hope called My Trip to The Land
of Gandhi, “To Mississippi Youth” from Malcolm X, “Break the Silence from MLK,
and the excerpt from The Greatest with Muhammad Ali (with Richard Durham)
For the video clips, I will show Malcolm X’s talk about going
to the UN after he comes back from his hajj and another clip of him at the UN.
For the Declaration of Human rights and the My Trip, there
will be a reading assignment prior to with questions written out for them to
answer. These will be followed by in class discussions.
The rest we will do as a class together.
2) Essential Question: During the peak US
Civil Rights period, are there direct connections to global
decolonization/civil rights events? If so how are they connected and how do
they affect each other?
3) I would say that this is going go for about four days
4) For the assessments, aside for looking at their answers
and listening to the discussion, I want theme to have a research day. During
this day in the library I will give them a list of key words, phrases, and
dates. Each student will have a different set. For example one kid may have
Vietnam Veterans Against the War and Sukarno at the opening of Bandung,
while another has Che speaking at the UN and the OAU in 1963 etc. After they
have looked up this material and answered questions about them, the class will
come together and created a dived time line of There and Here- the top is
outside the US
or at the UN and the bottom is Here. They will take al of this and put it
together on poster papers that each depicts five years.
Following this project I will give them the essential
question and ask them to write the answer using three specific examples.
5) Declaration of Human Rights, Testament of Hope “My Trip to The Land of Gandhi”, “To Mississippi
Youth” from Malcolm X, “Break the Silence from MLK, and the excerpt from The
Greatest with Muhammad Ali (with Richard Durham)
Malcolm X’s talk
about going to the UN after he comes back from his hajj and another clip of him
at the UN (I watch them on YouTube and will have to find them again)
6) My chief concern is the scale. In trying to narrow things
down I have in fact made it much larger
Zachary Simmons