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Title | Understanding the Civil Rights Movement - middle school Social Studies Lesson |
Content | This is a middle school lesson that uses process drama and Thought-Tracking to introduce the Civil Rights Unit.
Some modifications: The task that the students are assigned in the pre-activity is not too important - I choose that as a means of accessing the students prior knowledge. It can be changed to anything arbitrary as long as it is pretty obvious that one shape is being favored over the other.
Lesson Plan Title: Introduction to the Civil Rights Movement
Grade: 4th – 6th
Central Question: How does this dramatic activity teach students about the way people were treated during the Civil Rights Movement?
PURPOSE OF LESSON: How did the treatment of some people lead to the Civil Rights Movement?
LESSON OBJECTIVES
Students will
MATERIALS NEEDED pens, paper, name tags with circles, name tags with squares, coins (candy)
WARM-UP
Columbian Hypnosis
Prep-Activity
Process Drama
MAIN ACTIVITY
Group Tableaux and Thought-Tracking
REFLECTION
Teacher Led Reflection
Teacher will lead a group discussion to reflect on the activities.
What did you see? What did you hear?
What did you notice? Feel?
What do you wonder?
(Does this struggle of power/oppression ever happen in real life? What could the circle group represent in real life? What about the square group? How did it feel to be a circle/square?
How does this struggle relate to what you know about the Civil Rights Movement?
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