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Understandings
Essential Questions:
Students will understand that
-there are fundamental values of democracy,
1. What do we mean by
the common good, liberty, justice, equality
segregation?
and individual dignity that exist in our
2. Why did segregation
United States Constitution
exist in the United
rules of law can serve to support order and
States?
protect individual rights
3. Why did slavery exist in
throughout United States history certain
the United States?
4.
What were the Jim Crow
groups of people have been denied their
laws? How did they
basic fundamental rights
become enacted?
throughout United States history brave men
5. How did slavery result in
and women have fought hard to eliminate
racial prejudice?
injustice
6. What was the
segregation has caused racial issues in the
Emancipation
United States
Proclamation? What did
in the United States slavery was the
this mean?
precursor to segregation and racial prejudice
7. What do we mean by the
Civil Rights movement?
8. What important laws
influenced the Civil
Rights Movement?
9. Who were important
African Americans who
impacted the United
States today?
Students will know:
1. The following African Americans and why they
are important in history.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Ruby Bridges
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Benjamin Banneker
Frederick Douglass
Rosa Parks
Coretta Scott King
Ray Charles
Willie Mays
Jackie Robinson
Jim Brown
Colin Powell
Michael Jordan
Jerry Rice
Nat Turner
George Washington Carver
Thurgood Marshall
2. Important civil rights events that took place in
the United States:
a. President Truman signs an Executive Order
stating equality of treatment and opportunity
for all persons in the armed services
b. Supreme Court declares segregation in
schools unconstitutional in Brown vs. Board
of Education
c. Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat at the
front of a colored section bus
d. President Eisenhower sends troops to
intervene on students blocked from school,
known as Little Rock Nine
e. Martin Luther King is arrested for
protesting in Birmingham, Al
f. Martin Luther King gives I Have a Dream
speech
g. Civil Rights Act passed in 1964
h. Historical Supreme court decisions that
influenced the Civil Rights Movement and
addressed the justice and equality.
i. Important federal laws and court decisions.
occurred throughout
black history.
Define the underground
railroad and understand
its importance.
Teacher observations
Daily homework
assignments
Read Alouds
Reading Groups
Scholastic News
Class discussions
Writing assignments
Teacher observations
during question and
answers sessions
Summative Assessment
Performance assessment
rubric
Unit test