AAS.SS10.2.2
Describe the significant national holidays, including the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.; Presidents’ Day; Memorial Day; the Fourth of July; Veterans Day; and Thanksgiving Day.
Overview
In this learning activity, students examine a letter or speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. and turn his words into word art using the Wordle website. The activity includes a list of compositions by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Content Standards
AAS.SS10.4.14
Identify the purpose of the Civil Rights Movement; recognize important issues, leaders, and results of the movement.
SS10.2.2
Identify national historical figures and celebrations that exemplify fundamental democratic values, including equality, justice, and responsibility for the common good.
Unpacked Content
UP:SS10.3.12
Vocabulary
- historic figures (male and female)
- celebrations
- exemplify
- democratic values
- recognize
- founding fathers
- significance
- national holidays
- American symbols
- monuments
Knowledge
Students know:
- Fundamental democratic values including equality, justice, and responsibility for the common good.
- The names and significance of national historic figures, both male and female.
- The significance of national holidays and the relationship of each to democratic values.
- The history and significance of American symbols and monuments.
- Vocabulary: democratic values, equality, justice, responsibility, common good, founding father, national holiday, American symbol, monument
Skills
Students are able to:
- Identify national historic figures and celebrations.
- Identify the ways historic figures and celebrations exemplify fundamental democratic values.
- Recognize our country's founding fathers and other historic male figures.
- Recognize historic female figures.
- Describe national holidays, including the significance of each and the democratic values associated with each.
- Identify American symbols and monuments and describe the history and significance of each.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- There is an importance and impact of national historic figures and celebrations.
SS10.4.14
Analyze the modern Civil Rights Movement to determine the social, political, and economic impact on Alabama.
Unpacked Content
UP:SS10.4.14
Vocabulary
- analyze
- interpret
- discrimination
- prejudice
- protest (violent and non-violent)
- boycott
- sit-in
- segregation
- integration
- Jim Crow
- suffrage
- rights
- NAACP
Knowledge
Students know:
- Many of the key leaders that were vital to the modern Civil Rights movement including Martin Luther King, Jr.; George C. Wallace; Rosa Parks; Fred Shuttlesworth; John Lewis; Malcolm X; Thurgood Marshall; Hugo Black; and Ralph David Abernathy.
- How the Montgomery Bus Boycott and other forms of protest impacted Alabama's economy.
- How the many forms of non-violent protests were used to help African Americans in Alabama gain equality including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Selma-to-Montgomery March, and children's marches.
- African Americans in Alabama were often the victims of violence while trying to gain equality (Sixteenth Street Church bombing, Freedom Riders bus bombing).
Skills
Students are able to:
- Recognize important persons of the modern Civil Rights Movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr.; George C. Wallace; Rosa Parks; Fred Shuttlesworth; John Lewis; Malcolm X; Thurgood Marshall; Hugo Black; and Ralph David Abernathy.
- Describe events of the modern Civil Rights Movement, including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, the Freedom Riders bus bombing, and the Selma-to-Montgomery March.
- Interpret primary sources such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Brown versus Board of Education Supreme Court case of 1954, and Letters from the Birmingham Jail.
- Use vocabulary associated with the modern Civil Rights Movement, including discrimination, prejudice, segregation, integration, suffrage, and rights.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- Many individuals and events had a social, political, and economic impact on the people of Alabama during the modern Civil Rights Movement. There were many benefits of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and Brown v. Board (1954).
- The doctrine of separate but equal called for specific things.
- These events also had a significant impact on the nation.
Interdisciplinary Connection(s)
Link to Resource
URL (web address)
Content Type / Source
CR Resource Type
Learning Activity
Resource Provider
Smithsonian
Accessibility
License
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CUSTOM
