Third Grade Social Studies
Looking at Unit 5
Rights and Freedoms for Everybody
Marlo Mong
January 13, 2009
How do I know what concepts to teach?
• Use your curriculum map!
– Unit One on every map lists the concepts
used for the rest of the year
– Every piece of content for the rest of the
year is listed under a relevant concept
• These are suggestions – make
them work for your class!
• Keep up with it all by using your
concept wall.
– Because you have been organizing the
standards using the concept wall since
unit 1, students should be starting to
make some connections between
concepts and units.
Teaching Historical Figures
• Start with character traits
– Introduce vocabulary
– Create a chart that describes traits
– Give examples of character traits in people important to students’
lives
– Refer to chart every time you study a historical figure
• Integrate Social Studies and ELA
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Teach non-fiction reading strategies with biographies
Emphasize the reason historical figure is in the standard
Think about character forming events and impact on society
Discuss differences between what is significant and what is “cool”
Eleanor Roosevelt: What was her role in the United Nations
and changing human rights?
• Activist: Why was it important to help the underprivileged? Think about
how her actions help or harm others.
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Changed the role of First Lady
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Uncle Teddy (Pres. Theodore Roosevelt) instilled family value of social responsibility
Worked in lower income areas of NYC to help immigrants adapt to new life in America
Unusual because she did this on a regular basis…most rich people did this occasionally
Reported to the president about working and living conditions as she traveled through the US
Wanted to help those who were disadvantaged
Member of the US delegation to the United Nations
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Chairman of the Human Rights Commission
Helped write the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Inalienable rights of the human family: freedom, justice, and peace
• Everyone is entitled to these rights regardless of who they are or
where they live
Framework Support
Thurgood Marshall: How did he contribute to the civil rights
movement?
• Supreme Court Justice: Why did he choose this path?
• Think about how his beliefs helped him make his decisions
both in and out of court.
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Maryland: Again, what is the significance of this southern state?
– Growing up, father instilled in him the love of law
• Would parallel beliefs of Dean of Howard University Law School that the constitution applies to all
people
– Denied acceptance in University of Maryland Law School because of race
• First court case: successfully sued U of M Law School to admit African-American students
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Used law and the justice system to end segregation
– Work as a lawyer for the NAACP helped him to become a leader in civil rights
• Brown vs. Board of Education: Landmark case legally ending “separate but equal”
– 1st African-American Supreme Court Justice
• Legal work with desegregation led to new protections under law for all Americans: women, children,
homeless, prisoners
Framework Support
Lyndon B. Johnson: How did Great Society and
changes in voting rights impact people’s rights?
• President: How did his actions impact society? Think about
the positive/negative effects of his actions.
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Texas: Worked his way through teacher college and taught at a
predominantly Mexican-American school where he felt the burden of
poverty on his students
The Great Society: Speech delivered to students in Michigan
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3 issues: rebuilding urban cities; protecting and caring for America’s resources; improving
education
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Became a series of initiative that included: aid to education; Medicare; urban
renewal, beautification, conservation, and development of depressed regions; a
wide-scale fight against poverty; control and prevention of crime and delinquency;
and removal of obstacles to the right to vote
the result of this will provide all American’s greater opportunities and equality
Voting Rights Act of 1965 eliminated all prerequisite requirements to vote
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Constitutionally, all citizens were entitled to vote but individual cities created rules to prevent
African-Americans to vote such as literacy requirements or poll taxes.
Framework Support
Resources
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http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/erbio.html
– Short biography of Eleanor Roosevelt from the FDR Presidential Library
http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/eleanor.html
– Article from Time Magazine about the most influential people of the last century. Very frank and honest account of her life both personally and
as the First Lady.
http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/abouterp/overview.cfm
– The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project-This website has collected many of her correspondences, speeches, articles, and other primary source
documents. Also links are available to teach about the First Lady and human rights. The lessons are geared to upper grades, but could
provide useful background for teachers.
http://www.nps.gov/elro/
– The only National Historic Site dedicated to a First Lady. This takes you to Val-Kill, her residence after the passing of President Roosevelt.
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/marshallthrgd
– America’s Story from the America’s Library a website created by the Library of Congress. Learn about the life of Thurgood Marshall written
with students in mind.
http://www.oyez.org/justices/thurgood_marshall/
– The Oyez Project is dedicated to archiving and documenting all the “goings-on” of the Supreme Court. This link takes you to the official
biography of Thurgood Marshall as well as his Supreme Court portrait. If you visit the Oyez site, there is a link for a virtual tour of the Supreme
Court building.
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/marshall/
– Using the timeline, American Radio Works offers biographical and historical information about the work of Thurgood Marshall.
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/lbjforkids/main.htm
– Lyndon B. Johnson for Kids! A link from the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum.
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/
– The Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum website.
http://www.nps.gov/lyjo/planyourvisit/reconstructedbirthplace.htm
– Commissioned by President Johnson, this is the recreation of his family home in Texas.
Resources for Integration
A Picture Book of Thurgood Marshall &
A Picture Book of Eleanor Roosevelt
By: David A Adler
Holiday House, Inc.
Thurgood Marshall
Famous Americans
Series
By: Helen Frost
Coughlan Publishing
Eleanor Roosevelt: First
Lady of the World
Time for Kids Biographies
By: with Dina El Nabli
Harpercollins Childrens
Books
Great Society: The Story
of Lyndon Baines
Johnson
By: Nancy A. Colbert
Morgan Reynolds,
Incorporated
Eleanor
By: Barbara Cooney
Penguin Group (USA)
The Eleanor Roosevelt You
Never Knew
By: James Lincoln Collier
Children's Press(CT)
Thurgood Marshall: Civil Rights
Champion
By: Judy Monroe
Capstone Press Inc
A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt
By: C. Coco De Young
Topeka Bindery