Mr. Owens
History Teacher
Civil Disobedience
• Transcendentalism
• Slavery and abolition
• Civil Rights Movement
• Farm workers’ movements
• Women’s rights movement
• Major supreme court cases
Unit 6: Civil Disobedience
Evaluate the effectiveness of civil disobedience methods from 1849-1975 (non-violent direct action, legislation, grassroots activism, and radicalism) that enacted social change and the resulting effects on society.
Monday 2/28
Objective: Students will find the origins of Civil Disobedience in American Literature
Task: 1) Henry David Thoreau-Civil Disobedience
2) Civil Disobedience PPT
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Friday 3/2
Objective: Students will work on veteran's project and begin watching the "Long March"
Task: 1) Watch "A Long March to Freedom" First 45 minutes.
2) Slave Narratives.
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Tuesday 3/3
Objective: Students will work on veteran's project and begin watching the "Long March"
Task: 1) Radical Reconstruction to Jim Crow
2) Watch "Long March"
Wednesday 3/4
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Objective: Students will interview veterans and create a video project.
Task: 1) Veteran Interviews
2) Begin Editing
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HW: Veterans Project Due March 23rd
-Put video onto USB
-Include Thank you card
-Include Group Picture/Photo Album
-Include printed copy of transcripts
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Thursday 3/5
1) Assign Socratic Seminar and assign Huck Finn excerpt for Wednesday
2) Vocab Review (Roll the Dice)
3) Gradualism
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Friday 3/06
Objective: Students will identify moments of non-violent direct action, legislation, grassroots activism, and radicalism.
1) Civil Rights Economic Boycotts
2) Huck Finn: Discuss Ch 1-4
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Monday-Tuesday 03/09-03/10
Testing Schedule (45 min periods)
Task: 1) Work on Vets Project
B-roll+Camera=Editors-Edit Video
Audio-Transcribe (Type out key moments)
Interviewers-Thank you cards
Each person write 1 page write up on how the project impacted you.
Will be graded worth 10 points
Wednesday 03/11
Objective: Students will analyze slave narratives and photographs to understand the role of media in Civil Disobedience.
Task: 1) Intro Research Paper-Tentative Dates-Subject to change
Pick your groups (Step 1)
Cultural Element (Step 2)
3 Articles Annotated (Step 3)
Original Research (Step 3)
Final Annotated Bibs (Step 4)
Introduction Rough Draft (Step 5)
Background/Context Rought Draft (Step 6)
Original Research/My Contr. (Step 7)
Conclusion (Step 8)
Group Lesson Plan (Step 10)
Final Draft (Step 9)
Group Presentations Start (Step 11)
2) Research Question Topic Selection PPT
3) Huck Finn Ch 5-7
Thursday 03/12
Objective: Students will discuss Huck Finn
Task: 1) Huck Finn Journal
2) Research Question PPT
3) Goldilocks-How to write a research question
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Friday 03/13
Objective: Students compare civil rights arguments.
Task: 1) Economic Boycotts
2) Huck Finn
Monday 03/16-No School
Tuesday 03/17
Objective: Students will describe the early years of the civil rights movement.
Task: 1) Civil Rights Court Cases
4) Huck Finn 23+31
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Wednesday 03/18
Objective: Students will analyze the effectiveness of non-violent resistance
Task: 1) Redlining and Racial Covanents
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Thursday 03/19
Objective: Students will analyze the effectiveness of non-violent resistance
1) Civil Rights Legislation
2) Raisin Act 1.1
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Friday 03/20
Objective: Students will analyze the effectiveness of non-violent resistance
1) Malcolm X vs MLK
2) Raisin Act I.II
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Monday 03/23
Objective: Students will analyze the effectiveness of non-violent resistance
1) Background PPT
2) SNCC, CORE and Black Power Reading
3) Millions in his firing squad Reading
4) MLK Videos
5) King and RFK Reading
Tuesday 03/24
Objective: Students will begin to do preliminary research for their research paper.
1) Raisin II.i-ii
2) Project Research Time
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Wednesday 03/25
Objective: Students will continue to do research for their research paper.
1) Cast Raisin Act III-Students perform
2) Project Research Time
Thursday 03/26
Objective: Students will analyze the effectiveness of non-violent resistance
1) Show CNN-The Sixties Times are a changin: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x56gtyh
2) Writing Annotations Handout+Research Time
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Friday 03/27
Objective: Students will analyze the origins of the feminist movement.
Task: 1) Birth Control+Ads
2) Research Project Step 3.
-3 articles due for share out in groups
Monday 03/30
Objective: Students will examine the origins of the farm workers movement.
Task: 1) Viva La Causa Video+Questions
2) Original Research Planning Time:
-Revise Research Question
-Begin Planning original research
-Research Question Exit Ticket
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Tuesday 03/31
Objective: Students will analyze the life of Malcolm X by watching Spike Lee's film.
1) Watch "Malcolm X" entire period
Wednesday 04/01-Guidance Presentation-Entire Period
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Thursday 04/02
Objective: Students will analyze the life of Malcolm X by watching Spike Lee's film.
1) Continue Watching "Malcolm X"
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Friday 04/03
Objective: Students will explain why the movements of the 60's came to an end.
Task: 1) Continue "Malcolm"
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Monday 04/06
Warm-Up: Get Packet Together
Objective: Students will take Socratic Part 1
Task: 1) Socratic Seminar
2) Research Planning or Essay Outline
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Tuesday 04/07
Objective: Students will take Socratic Part 2
Task: 1) Socratic Seminar Part 2
2) Research Planning or Essay Outline
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Wednesday 04/08
Objective: Students will take Review for Test
Task: 1) Test Review
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Thursday 04/09
Objective: Students will take test part 1
Task: 1) Test Part 1
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Friday 04/10
Objective: Students will take test Part 2
Task:
1) Take Test Part 2
Enjoy Spring Break!!! (4/15-4/19)
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