Paga/ Graiser
History:
SS8H11 The student will evaluate the role of Georgia in the modern civil rights movement. a. Describe major developments in civil rights and Georgia's role during the 1940s and 1950s; include the roles of
Herman Talmadge, Benjamin Mays, the 1946 governor's race and the end of the white primary, Brown v. Board of
Education, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the 1956 state flag. b. Analyze the role Georgia and prominent Georgians played in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s; include such events as the founding of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Sibley
Commission, admission of Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter to the University of Georgia, Albany
Movement, March on Washington, Civil Rights Act, the election of Maynard Jackson as mayor of Atlanta, and the role of Lester Maddox. c. Discuss the impact of Andrew Young on Georgia.
Monday 3/24 Tuesday 3/25
Essential Question: See Box Below
Wednesday 3/26 Thursday 3/27 Friday 2/28
What events and groups impacted the outcome of the Civil
Rights movement?
8 th Grade
Georgia Studies
Glynn Middle School
LFS Weekly Lesson Plan
3/24/14- 3/28/14
What events and groups impacted the outcome of the Civil
Rights movement?
What events and groups impacted the outcome of the Civil
Rights movement?
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Civil Rights

Glynn Middle School
LFS Weekly Lesson Plan
Activating/Acceleration:
( Some ideas : KWL, Pre-reading, Think Pair Share, Thinking Maps, Vocabulary Overview, Word Splash, Survey, Big Four)
Kahoot Civil Rights review
Activator :
Mississippi Trial
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Activator :
Mississippi Trial
Cognitive Teaching Strategies: include time for distributed practice or summarizing
( Some ideas: Lecture/Question, Read/Discuss, TIMS, Hands on Activity, Thinking Map, Pictograph, Research, Vocabulary, Diagrams/Graphs)
Summarizing Strategies: ( Some ideas: Ticket Out the Door, 3-2-1, The Important Thing, One Word, Learning Logs)
One Fact Summary
Extending/Refining Activity: This is for all students. After they acquire, then take them up a notch with thinking skills/writing prompts.
( Some ideas: Cause/Effect, Compare/Contrast, Write, Classify, Analyze, Evaluate, Inductive, Deductive)
Assignment and/or Assessment: A variety of informal, performance, constructed response, selected response
Civil Rights movement
1. Kahoot Civil Rights review
2. Review of Mississippi
Trial chapter 1: characters and story line.
3. Introduction of
Emmett Till
Mississippi Trial 1955 interview project.
4. Continuation of
Civil Rights Movement
1. Students will go to the courtyard or outside classroom room to continue reading Mississippi
Trial 1955. .(refer to notes below)
Civil Rights Movement
1. Mississippi Trial quiz
2. Continuation of reading Mississippi
Trial 1955. .(refer to notes below)

Glynn Middle School
LFS Weekly Lesson Plan
Mississippi Trial
1955.(refer to notes below)
Differentiation
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Preferred seating
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Select students will peer read with para assistance. 4 th period will have Mr.
Cook and 7 th period will have Ms. Dock
Differentiation
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Students will read in the courtyard today. Some
 students will partner read and some will read individually.
Select students will partner read with para assistance. 4 th period will have Mr.
Cook and 7 th period will have Ms. Dock
Differentiation

Preferred seating
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Modified quiz/ small group for quiz for select students.
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Select students will peer read with para assistance. 4 th period will have Mr.
Cook and 7 th period will have Ms. Dock
Homework
Civil Rights wrap up review worksheet
Students may check out our novel we are reading in order to complete it.