Interactive Reading Guide
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Instructions
Notes
1. -As a group read the title of Section 2. Then read the Prediction: _____________________________
three red subtitles.
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-Write down your prediction of what this section
might be about.
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-Share your predictions with your group.
2. -Find the subtitle “A Return to Old Ways.”
-Partner A: Read the first two paragraphs out loud
-Partner B: Summarize what your partner just read
-Partner A: Read the third paragraph out loud
-Partner A & B: Discuss and decide on a definition for
the word “discrimination” and write it down.
3. -Find the subtitle “Jim Crow Laws”
-Partner A: Read the first paragraph silently.
-Name one way that the southern government
denied the freedom to vote for African Americans.
3. -Partner B: Read the second & third paragraphs
silently.
-Name one way that the southern government
denied the freedom to vote for African Americans.
4. -Compare notes with your partner. You should have
two things listed in the box to the right.
Discrimination: _________________________
5. -Partner B: Read the fourth paragraph out loud.
-Partner A: Describe what segregation looked like in
the southern states.
-Partners A & B: Discuss how you think African
Americans felt when they were segregated.
How do you think African Americans felt when
they were segregated? ___________________
______________________________________
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Ways that African Americans were denied the
freedom to vote:
1. ___________________________________
___________________________________
2. ___________________________________
___________________________________
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6. -Partner A: Read the fifth paragraph out loud.
-Partner B: Summarize what your partner just read.
-Partners A & B: If Jim Crow Laws are another name
for segregation laws then come up with some
examples of Jim Crow Laws and list them.
Examples of Jim Crow Laws:
7. -As a group, have one person read the sixth
paragraph out loud.
-Explain what “prejudice” is in your own words to
your group.
-Can anyone in your group think of examples of
prejudice during Reconstruction?
-Can anyone in your group think of examples of
when prejudice happens today?
8. –If your group finishes early then you can start
working on your vocabulary/definition handout that
is already in your interactive notebook.
Examples of prejudice:
1. ___________________________________
2. ___________________________________
3. ___________________________________
1. ___________________________________
2. ___________________________________
3. ___________________________________
4. ___________________________________
Unfinished words from vocabulary handout:
Discrimination (Hint: #2)
Poll Tax (Hint #3 & 4)
Jim Crow Laws (Hint: #6)
9. - As a class we will discuss your answers to the
Prejudice: ______________________________
questions above.
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- When we get to #7 pay attention to the word map
that we will do together. Then copy the definition of ______________________________________
prejudice in the box to the right.