Classroom Program Planning.
Week/topics
Wk 1
(1)
16-20 July
PD Day
Area Study 1
Power and
Authority
Wk 2
(2)
23-27 July
Years 10-12
Academic
Award Assembly
(1 Aug.)
Unit ¾ Parent
teacher
interviews
(2 Aug)
Area Study 1
Power and
Authority
Wk 3
(1)
30 July-3 August
Area Study 1
Power and
Authority
Subject/Unit: People and Power
Civil Rights in USA
Learning Strategies and Activities:
(Including Learning Technologies use)
Assessment Tasks:
Term 3 Begins
 Course outline
Introductory activities
 Segregation of the 1930s: Photo Analysis and Worksheet
 Introductory activity: Film analysis: ‘Remember the Titans’
or ‘Help’ which highlights segregation in US or Mississippi
Burning
Content:
 PowerPoint: Declaration of Independence and American
constitution and or Workbook Research Activity
‘Checkpoint Charlie’
 Workbook Activity: Research Activity on Declaration of
Independence.
Content:
 Handout: ‘How Free and Equal’ were Afro Americans by
1954?
 Crossword on glossary terms on Civil Rights
‘Checkpoint Charlie’
 Workbook Activity: Investigation on Early black rights
leaders and formation of KKK.
Content:
 Activity: Jim Crow laws on wikis
 Handout: National Association for the Advancement of
Coloured People (NAACP)
 Cartoon analysis
 Possible Film analysis: Guess who is coming to Dinner
Content:
 Dissecting the film: Guess who is coming to Dinner and its
relationship with the Jim Crow laws and segregation.
 Revisit scenes from the ‘Remember the Titans’ or ‘Help’ or
‘Help’ or ‘Mississippi Burning’ in relation to Jim Crow.
Comparison between the two films.
Preparation for SAC
1: Visual analysis of a
cartoon or film.
SAC 4: Work Book
Outcome 1 and Outcome 4

Wk 4
(2)
6-10 August
Odyssey Week
Year 11 Formal
(10 Aug)
Area Study 2
Dissenting
groups and
challenges
Preparation for SAC 1 i.e. bringing together key ideas and
content
Outcome 1 and Outcome 4

Complete SAC 1
Outcome 2A

Begin SAC 2A: Oral Presentation. Students investigate a
particular Civil Rights Leader and Key Events.
Content:
 Handout: Segregation in the United States in the 1950s.
 Handout: Brown v. Board of Education
 Handout: Written Document analysis of Brown v. Board of
Education
SAC 1: Visual analysis
of a cartoon or film.


Wk 5
(1)
13-17 August
Exeat weekend
Years 10-12
Winter Sports
Assembly
(15 Aug.)
Handout: Online investigation of Little Rock.
Handout: Photo analysis of Little Rock
Content:
 Handout: Film analysis on the Montgomery Bus Boycott
and/or/or Mississippi Burning/Remember the Titans
‘Checkpoint Charlie’
 Workbook Activity: Comparison questions on the film
analysis.
Cross campus
Football/netball
(17 Aug)
Area Study 2
Dissenting
groups and
challenges
Wk 6
(2)
20-24 August
Year 10 & 11
Parent Teacher
Interviews
(21 August)
Wk 7
(1)
27-31August-
Area Study 2
Dissenting
groups and
challenges
Wk 8
(2)
3-7 September
Years 10-12
Winter
Sports/Arts/
Service Awards
(5 Sept)
Area Study 2
Dissenting
groups and
challenges
Wk 9.
(1)
10-14 September
Area Study 2
Dissenting
groups and
challenges
Outcome 2A
SAC 2A:
Oral/Multimedia
Presentation
Content:
 Film analysis of Mississippi Burning or Remember the
Titans-relates well to Little Rock-Desegregation of schools.
 Handout: Investigation of Mississippi Burning.
Preparation for SAC
2B: Essay
 Presentations to be completed.
Content:
 Handouts/Activities: Montgomery bus boycott and Rosa
Parks
 Handout: Film analysis on the Montgomery Bus Boycott
and/or/or Mississippi Burning/Remember the Titans
 Handout: newspaper article: Klan Kingpin charged
Outcome 2B

Handout: Preparation sheet for Outcome 2B
Content:
 Excerpts from film: Malcolm X and documentary on Martin
Luther King
 Preparation for an essay on the groups e.g. NAACP and
Malcolm X and the events that help to mobilize people, and
challenge authority.
 Students begin researching several key individuals and
groups relating to the civil rights movement by utilizing the
Internet.
Preparation for SAC
2B: Essay
Outcome 2B
SAC 2B: Essay

Students work on their research for their essay so that their
notes are ready for the SAC.
 Preparation for the SAC. Compiling the key ideas and
content through inspiration or other graphic organizers.
 Complete Essay under test conditions.
Content:
 Handout: ‘We shall overcome’ did they?
SAC 4: WORKBOOK

Wk 10
(2)
17-21 September
Area Study 3
Change
Handout: The growing Militancy of the Civil Rights
Movement, 1950-1980.
Content:
 PowerPoint presentation on the background information
 PowerPoint on 1964 Civil rights Act success?
 Handout: Birmingham 1963
 PowerPoint 1964 Civil rights Act The legacy
 Newspaper article: fifty years after Rosa Parks, it’s still a
black and white world.
‘Checkpoint Charlie’
 Workbook Activity: Reflection piece of success of the
individuals/organisations.
Wk 1
(1)
8-12 October
PD Day
End of Term 3
Term 4 Begins
Outcome 2B

Preparation for Historiographical Exercise
Area Study 3
Change
Wk 2
(2)
15-19 October
Outcome 2B

Preparation for Historiographical Exercise
Preparation for SAC
3:
Historiographical
Exercise
SAC 3:
Historiographical
Exercise
Exam
Area Study 3
Change
Wk 3
(1)
22-26 October

Revision Handout given
Exam Preparation
Exam

Students are to work on their exam notes.
Exam Preparation
Final Assembly
for Year 12s
(22 Oct)
Valedictory
Dinner
(22 Oct)
Area Study 3
Change
Wk 4
(2)
29 October-2
November
Melbourne
Cup/Exeat
Weekend
Year 12
Examinations
start on 1th
November
Exam

Revision for the Exam
Exam Preparation
Wk 5
(1)
5-9 November
Year 10 /11
Examinations
start
(9 Nov.)

Start of Exam Week
Wk 6
(2)
12-16 November

Exam Week Finishes
Year 11
Examinations
finish
(21 Nov.)
Year 10
Examinations
finish
(16 Nov.)
Wk 7
(1)
19-23 November
Year 10 work
Experience
Preparatory Program Begins for VCE Subjects.
Year 11
Preparatory
Program
(22 Aug)
Wk 8
(2)
26-30 November
Last day of
classes for Years
10 & 11
(30 Nov)
End of Term 4 for Year 11 students