Lesson Plan : Active and passive reactions
Teacher Name: | Mrs. Janice Sutton |
Grade: | Grade 11-12 |
Subject: | Social Studies |
Topic: | Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X Talk about African American Civil rights and how to go about getting it. |
Content: | Brown v. Board of Education Thurgood Marshall Earl Warren Rosa Parks Martin Luther King Jr. Little Rock Nine Sit-ins S.N.C.C. Freedom Riders 24th Amendment March on Washington Civil Rights Act of 1964 Voting Rights Act of 1965 Malcolm X Black Power Movement Black Panthers |
Goals: | •Assume the roles of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X and debate the methods for achieving African-American equality. •write a dialog between a Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X that includes their key arguments for the methods that African-Americans should use to achieve equality. |
Objectives: | 11.02 Trace major events of the Civil Rights Movement and evaluate its impact. 11.03 Identify major social movements including, but not limited to, those involving women, young people, and the environment, and evaluate the impacts of these movements in the United States’ society. |
Materials: | •Interactive notebooks (including glue, scissors, color pencils, & markers) •Student handouts on Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X •Assigned partners •Power Point with quotes from Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X •Computer with Mini Lessons •Projector |
Introduction: | Students will learn about and write a fictional dialogue reflecting Martin Luther King Jr.’s and Malcolm X’s differing viewpoints on the methods African Americans should use to achieve equal rights in the United States. |
Development: | Evaluate Reading Summarizing Debate Interpretation |
Practice: | 1) Teacher will assign each student as either Martin Luther King or Malcolm X. The teacher will give each student a biography sheet on their assigned person. 2) Teacher will ask for a Martin Luther King to partner with a Malcolm X. 3)The teacher will now show a quote by Martin Luther King. 4) The teacher will now give time for the Malcolm X people to response (1 minute) 5) The teacher will then switch to Malcolm X reads out loud his quote and now Martin Luther King will have 1 minute to respond. The teacher will do this so that each character has 5 times to say a quote and 5 times to respond to a quote. |
Accommodations: | If needed, the reading material can be differentiated based on reading levels. |
Checking For Understanding: | The Teacher needs to make sure the students have a chance to debrief and allow students to share their feelings. Students will now have the chance to talk about how they felt during the activity and what they liked about the activity. |
Closure: | Write a dialogue reflecting a conversation Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X might have had about the methods African-Americans should use to achieve equality. |
Evaluation: | Check for notes in their Interactive Notebooks, listen to the classroom talk when doing the conversations, and grade the written dialogue. |
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