Digital Unit Plan Template

Unit Title: Civil Rights Plus Voting Rights Name: Grayson Williams
Content Area: U.S. History Grade Level:11th grade
CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):
11.10 Students analyze the development of federal civil rights and voting rights.

2. Examine and analyze the key events, policies, and court cases in the evolution of civil rights, including Dred Scott v. Sandford,
Plessy v. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, and California Proposition
209.

3. Describe the collaboration on legal strategy between African American and white civil rights lawyers to end racial segregation
in higher education.

4. Examine the roles of civil rights advocates (e.g., A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, Thurgood Marshall,
James Farmer, Rosa Parks), including the significance of Martin Luther King, Jr.s Letter from Birmingham Jail and I Have a
Dream speech.
Big Ideas/Unit Goals:

What key events, policies, people, and court cases provide stepping stones for Civil Rights Movement?

How did the relationship between African Americans and civil rights lawyers to help end the injustice of racial segregation in
higher education?

How did roles of civil rights advocates transform the public views on civil rights including MLK Letter from Birmingham and
I Have a Dream Speech?

Unit Summary:
Students in this unit will be getting a full depth analysis about the civil rights movements. Students will be able to understand certain
events, polices, and court cases that has transformed the civil rights as we know them today. Students will be doing assessments that are
entry level, formative, and Summative. The most important part of the chapter will be the building of the timeline with presentation
before the unit final. The reason why the building of the timeline is important is because the process will help with the students slowly
understand the key points of the civil rights movement. The timeline is a perfect way to use as prep work before the final unit test. All the
little assessments that lead to the overall goal of testing the students to make sure that each one of them understand.

Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level: Formative: Summative:.
Mind Map - Discussion with the entire Double journal entry - will be that on the Reflection - Students will need to wring a 300-
class to see how much they know about the left-side of the of chart students will using a 500 words reflection on 5 main events and
Civil Rights Movement. After a little direct quotation with a page number. One personal feelings behind each event from the
informal class discussion students will the right-side students will express the Civil Rights Movement.
instructed to pull out a piece of paper try to important or a reaction of that quote Presentation as a group- that will happen after
do a mind map by themselves. There will be Flash Cards These flash card will be the reflection. The groups of three will come up
on online allowing students to have resource about the important people and important with 15 events from the Civil Rights Movement
to do the assignment. events in the chapter named, Civil Rights and present them to the entire class.
Movement.
Quizzes - During the quizzes students will take
one of the on matching the people to the
description of their life. The second quiz will be
strictly about the people and the events that
they are doing.
Get in groups of 5s - Students will be getting
together while coming up with 3 main events
and then talk about them with the group. Each
student will have 3 minutes to talk in each
group about the event and the importance
Lesson 1 (Teacher Lecture)
Student Learning Acceptable Evidence Lesson Activities:
Objective: (Assessments): Students will be given a set of guided notes that will instruct them list things they
What key events, A lecture will be have learned about that said person or event. Students will also list what they want to
policies, and court provided by the learn more of as well as ask questions they might have. Then after the guided notes
cases provide stepping instructor. This lecture students will then write a synopsis on the notes provided by the teacher.
stones for Civil Rights will touch on the
Movement? overall view of people
 and events involved in
the Civil Rights
Movement.
Lesson 2 (Webercise/ iPad Lesson)
Student Learning Acceptable Evidence: Lesson Activities:
How did the Students will be Students will mostly be reading from different websites that will provide questions
relationship between completing a webercise for each students to answer. The student will then click on the link and read the text.
African Americans and in which they will After reading students will find the answer in text to answer the question to their
civil rights lawyers to answer the question abilities.
help end the injustice provided from each
of racial segregation in website. Each site has a
higher education? corresponding
question.
Lesson 3 (Graphic Organizer)
Student Learning Acceptable Evidence: Lesson Activities:
Objective: During this section Students will be creating an online timeline using google slides. Students will be able
How did roles of civil students will be to obtain 12 events that they can report on. Using this graphic organizer that can be
rights advocates creating a graphic used a study material for students when the summative section is to arise.
transform the public organizer known as a
views on civil rights timeline.
including MLK Letter
from Birmingham and
I Have a Dream
Speech?

Unit Resources:
History.com
The Textbook
Primary and Secondary sources of the people who participated in the civil rights movements
Articles from the newspapers
Museums
Online digital interactives
Song A Change Is Gonna Come https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEBlaMOmKV4
Song- Marvin Gaye- Whats Going On https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=H-kA3UtBj4M
Song - Pete Seeger - We shall overcome https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=QhnPVP23rzo
Letter From Birmingham Jail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIpfCVt2eb4
Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have A Dream Speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=3vDWWy4CMhE
Rosa Parks Ride to Justice https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=BTcQe4_aIpk
Google Slides/Documents

Useful Websites:

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-movement

https://www.britannica.com/event/American-civil-rights-movement

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/freedom/1917beyond/essays/crm.htm

https://www.infoplease.com/spot/civil-rights-timeline

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_brown.html