Teaching Guide
Please refer to the module Teaching
Guide for additional information.
Lesson summary
Instructional use
Pre-lesson activity
Standards covered by this lesson
Selected bibliography
Assessment
Lesson summary
This lesson tells the story of segregation and the Constitution from 1846
to 1964. It uses multiple perspectives to highlight important legal cases
that shaped the cause of civil rights for over 100 years. The cases include
Dred Scott, Plessy v. Ferguson, and Brown v. Board of Education. The narrators
of this lesson are civil rights leaders, Supreme Court justices, and politicians.
The story emphasizes the 14th and 15th Amendments.
Instructional use
This lesson includes multiple voices and would be an excellent choice
for involving students in reading aloud as different characters. Use a
projector to display the lesson to the classroom and have students take
turns reading different parts, such as Frederick Douglass, Thurgood Marshall,
or Martin Luther King, Jr.
For other instructional use scenarios refer to the module Teaching
Guide.
Pre-lesson activity
It is recommended that teachers preview the lesson to identify
concepts that may need to be reviewed before students begin. Concepts
include slavery, civil rights, and discrimination. Teachers may also wish
to create a vocabulary/spelling list for terms found in this lesson.
Teachers may also wish to review the biographies of the historical figures
studied in the lesson to provide anecdotal or secondary information. It
would also be helpful to review the historical period discussed in the
lesson (1846-1964).
The selection of Web Links have excellent examples
of primary source documents and images for familiarizing your students
with the issues covered by this lesson. Teachers are strongly encouraged
to use these with their students!
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Standards covered
by this lesson
Refer to the module Teaching
Guide for list a Language Arts goals covered by all WebDocent lessons.
Grades 7-8 Social Science and American History
Illinois State Goal 14
Understand, analyze, and compare political systems with
an emphasis on the United States.
Illinois State Goal 15
Understand, analyze, and compare economic systems with an emphasis on
the United States.
Illinois State Goal 16
Understand and analyze events, trends, individuals, and movements shaping
the history of Illinois, the United States, and other nations.
Illinois State Goal 18
Understand, analyze, and compare social systems with an emphasis on the
United States.
Selected bibliography
A bibliography is forthcoming. For web resources, refer to the Web
Links page.
Assessment
Refer to the module Teaching
Guide for an explanation of the online journal for assessment purposes.
See the Additional Activities page for ideas
for extending the lesson offline.
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