UNIT 8: CIVIL RIGHTS
Week 4: group #3-6 presentations
Agenda, Monday, 3/11
• Presentation #3 – Chicano/Latinos
• If absent, read p. 605, 609-610 and complete your guided
Cornell Notes sheet.
• HW: Summary/Analysis at the bottom of the Cornell
Notes sheet:
1. Successes and failures on Latino Rights regarding
• Farmer’s right (Chavez)
• Education
Agenda Tuesday, 3/18
• Presentation #4 – Women’s Movement
*If you are absent, you must read the textbook to complete the Cornell Notes
sheet.
HW: Analyze one of the following prompts:
A. Explain two different strategies (*include the goals &
successes) used by Women to gain rights.
B. How and to what extent has the US achieved equality
for women?
Agenda, Block day 3/19-3/20
• Presentation #5 – Gay Rights Movement
*If absent, read p.616 and get the group’s PPT (uploaded) to finish your
Cornell Note sheet.
• Discuss “busing” & Tuesday’s Lesson
• Elements of a civil rights movement
• HW: Analyze the following prompt:
Explain how gay rights have progressed and what rights are people still fighting for by including
at least 3 of the following
• Stonewall Riot
• Harvey Milk
• Proposition 8
• Gays serving openly in the military
• Teen suicide rates
Elements of a Civil Rights Movement
Directions: List examples of each of these aspects
of the civil rights movements from the movements
we’ve studied so far. Label each action with its
group (e.g. women, African Americans, etc.)
College
Student
involvement
Raising
awareness
Group
pride
Grassroots
actions
Government
actions
taken for the
group
Agenda for Friday, 3/21
• Group #6 American Indian Movement
UNIT 8: CIVIL RIGHTS
Week 5
Agenda Monday, 3/24
• Group #7 Disability
Agenda Tuesday, 3/25
• 1. rights of the elderly
• Are they still part of the invisible population of people experiencing
discrimination?
• 2. increase levels of depression/suicide
Agenda Blockday, 3/26-3/27
• Group #8 Muslim Rights
Agenda Friday 3/28
• Vocab and key terms quiz
• HOT ROC: What is affirmative action?
• Admissions activity
• Debate p.602-603, if time
• Writing prompts:
1. Identify current civil rights issues that exist for one or
more groups today.
2. To what extent was the Civil Rights Movement a
success?
• Be in groups of 3~4
• You are the college board admission panel at Stanford
(Snobfarm)
• You decide which students you will admit; which to put on
waitlists and which to reject
• Look at 4 handouts of student applications
• Together, decide on:
• 1 student to accept
• 1 student on waitlist
• 2 students to reject
• Is it easy to compare students qualifications?
• Do you pick students who can do sth for the school?
• Do you pick students for whom the school can do sth?
Affirmative action
• = take into account a variety of criteria in admission
besides scores; prioritize diversity on campus
*read textbook p.598-601 (602-603)
Divide into groups of 4~5