Civil Rights Movement – Common Core Lessons & Activities

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The Civil Rights Common Core Lessons and Activities Book allows you to immediately meet new Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, as well as Literacy and Writing in History/Social Studies. It is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent questions, and more into your daily instruction.

How to Use the Civil Rights Movement - Common Core Lessons & Activities book:
•Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st-century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
•Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
• Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
•Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards right before your eyes!

Click HERE to view sample pages from this book.

Tips:
•Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
•Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
• Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

The Civil Rights Movement - Common Core Lessons & Activities book includes:
• Reading for Information
• Higher-Order Thinking
• Writing Problems
• Primary Source Analysis
•Vocabulary
•Graphic Organizers
• Map Activities
• & More!

Here is the Table of Contents for the Civil Rights Movement - Common Core Lessons & Activities book:
Black Codes & Jim Crow: Reading Informational Text GO
Jim Crow Political Cartoon: Primary Source Analysis
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments: Reading Informational Text
Civil Rights Vocabulary: Vocabulary Activity GO
Plessy v. Ferguson & Brown v. BOE: Comparison of Primary Sources
Effects of Discrimination: Cause & Effect G
Peaceful Protest Tactics: Reading Informational Text
Civil Rights Organizations: Graphic Organizer G
Civil Rights Quotations: Primary Source Analysis G
Separate Facilities: Primary Source Analysis
Civil Rights: Summative Graphic Organizer G
Little Rock Nine: Reading Informational Text
Voices of Civil Rights: Influential People G
Montgomery Bus Boycott: Reading Informational Text
Freedom Riders: Map Activity
March on Washington: Primary Source Analysis
“I Have a Dream” Speech: Primary Source Analysis
Malcolm X & MLK Ideology: Comparison of Primary Sources
Civil Rights Act of 1964 & Voting Rights Act of 1965: Writing
Voting Statistics: Data Analysis
Civil Rights Events: Chronological Events GO
Common Core State Standards Correlations

G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: The graphic organizer is also available as an 8 1/2" x 11" downloadable PDF.