Mrs. Hall
First Grade
What is segregation?
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
How has the role of a Civil Rights
leader affected the lives of
Americans today?
What makes each
of us different?
Ways we are alike
Ways we are different
Share with your partner what makes you unique.
What is the purpose of the fence?
Have you ever felt like something was wrong and you knew
something had to be done to fix it?
What did you do about it?
Imagine…a law that said some people could not drink out of a
drinking fountain, or get served at a restaurant.
 What do you think the sign on the drinking fountain
means?
Victim
Bystander
Ally
Share a time you have taken one of the roles. Tell how you
felt. What could you have done differently? Did it make a
difference who else you were with?
• There were some brave people who wanted to change
how African Americans were being treated.
 They decided to work towards changing the world
around them.
 They start a movement…the Civil Rights Movement.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FarzJ2jjbOc&feature=related
On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court issued a decision in
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, declaring
that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSlvw-vEsEI&feature=related
What I Think I
Know
Confirmed
New Learning
Misconceptions
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFcbpGK9_aw
Share what you think Dr. King’s words mean in our
everyday lives.
What I Think I
Know
Confirmed
New Learning
Misconceptions
Ideas from the text
Students Thoughts,
Reaction/Connection
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLCbSf1OtCM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ShNK916778&feature=related
What I Think I
Know
Confirmed
New Learning
Misconceptions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGXH8ZCtzPU&feature=related
Can you put the events of the Civil Rights Movement in
order?
http://www.neok12.com/diagram/Civil-Rights-Movement-01.htm
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKxJ3uBxnr0&feature=related
How has the role of a Civil Rights leader affected
the lives of Americans today? What does it take
to be a leader? What kind of qualities does a
person need to have to be a leader?
 http://www.pbs.org/teachers/thismonth/civilrights/in
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dex1.html
http://www.neok12.com/pictures/Civil-RightsMovement.htm
http://www.neok12.com/diagram/Civil-RightsMovement-01.htm
http://www.teachersdomain.org/special/civil/
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/teachers/freelesson-plans/the-civil-rights-movement.cfm
 http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown
 Adler, D. (1993). A Picture Book of Rosa Parks. New York. Holiday House.
 Coleman, E. (1996). White Socks Only. Morton Grove, Illinois. Albert
Whitman & Co.
 Coles, R. (1995). The Story of Ruby Bridges. New York, New York. Scholastic,
Inc.
 Giovanni, N. (2006). Rosa. New York, New York. Scholastic, Inc.
 King, Farris, C. (2003). My Brother Martin. New York, New York. Simon &
Shuster Children’s Publishing Company.
 Marzollo, J. (1993). Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King. New York, New York.
Scholastic, Inc.
 McKissack, P. (2001). Goin’ Someplace Special. New York, New York.
Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
 Wiles, D. (2001). Freedom Summer. New York, New York. Atheneum Books for
Young Readers.
 Woodson, j. (2001). The Other Side. New York, New York. G.P. Putnam’s Sons.