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Social Studies: Domestic Politics and Reform
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April
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8.9 Domestic Politics and Reform: The Civil Rights Era
- The case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka and the Montgomery bus boycott were two early milestones in the civil rights movement.
- The activism of the Warren Court and the reforms of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson expanded the role of the federal government.
- During the 1960s, the civil rights movement won major victories but also fragmented into moderate and radical factions.
- Among the citizens who organized to seek change were women, Latinos, Native Americans, older Americans, and people with disabilities.
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8.9 Domestic Politics and Reform: The Civil Rights Era
How did the civil rights movement change the nation?
- What key events marked the beginning of the civil rights movement in the 1950s?
- What was the "Great Society"?
- How did the civil rights movement gain movement?
- What other groups were swept up in the spirit of reform?
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SS.8.9 |
DOMESTIC POLITICS AND REFORM: The civil rights movement and the Great Society were attempts by people and the government to address major social, legal, economic, and environmental problems. Subsequent economic recession called for a new economic program. |
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SS.I.1 |
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York. |
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SS.I.4 |
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the United States and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and non-market mechanisms. |
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SS.I.5 |
Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the United States and other nations; the United States Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation. |
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College, Career, and Civil Life (C3) Skills
Dimension 1: Developing Questions and Planning Inquiries
- D1.3.6-8. Explain points of agreement experts have about interpretations and applications of disciplinary concepts and ideas associated with a supporting question.
Dimension 2: Applying Disciplinary Concepts and Tools
- Civics D2.Civ.2.6-8. Examine specific roles played by citizens (such as voters, jurors, taxpayers, members of the armed forces, petitioners, protesters, and office-holders).
- Civics D2.Civ.9.6-8.Compare deliberative processes used by a wide variety of groups in various settings.
- Civics D2.Civ.11.6-8. Differentiate among procedures for making decisons in the classroom, school, civil society, and local, state, and national government in terms of how civic purposes are intended.
- Economics D2.Eco.11.6-8. Use appropriate data to evaluate the state of employment, unemployment, inflation, total production, income, and economic growth in the economy.
- Geography D2.Geo.4.6-8. Explain how cultural patterns and economic decisions influence environments and the daily lives of people in both nearby and distant places.
- History D2.His.2.6-8. Classify series of historical events and developments as examples of change and/or continuity.
Dimension 3: Evaluating Sources and Using Evidence
- D3.1.6-8. Gather relevant information from multiple sources while using the origin, authority, structure, context, and corroborative value of the sources to guide the selection.
Dimension 4: Communicating Conclusions & Taking Informed Action
- D4.5.6-8. Critique the structure of explanations.
NCSS Essential Skills for Social Studies
- Distinguish between the fact and opinion; recognize propaganda
- Use context clues to gain meaning
- Adjust speed of reading to suit purpose
- Write reports
- Interpret graphs
- Interpret history through artifacts
- Group data in categories according to appropriate criteria
- State relationships between categories of information
- Detect bias in data presented in various forms: graphics, tabular, visual print
- Form opinion based on critical examination of relevant information
- Reinterpret events terms of what might have happened, and show the likely effects on subsequent events
- Communicate orally and in writing
- Estimate the adequacy of the information
- Make decision based on the data obtained
- Keep informed on issues that affect society
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8.9 Domestic Politics and Reform: The Civil Rights Era
- integration
- boycott
- reinforce
- welfare
- domestic
- civil disobedience
- sit-in
- ghetto
- affirmative action
- bilingual
- mandatory retirement
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- Do Now Questions
- Socrative Entrance/Exit Tickets
- Polls
- Interactive Readings
- Graphic Organizers
- Thinking Maps
- Common Core Protocols
- Comprehension Assessments
- Writing Assessments
- Map Quiz
- Quizzes
- J. Dodge Differentiated Activities
- Marzano Strategies
- Primary Source Documents
- Document Based Questions
- Political Cartoons
- Constructed Response Questions
- Chapter Test
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- 25 Quick Formative Assessments - Judy Dodge
- America: History of our Nation - Prentice Hall
- OneNote
- Interactive Reading
- PearsonSuccessNet.com
- Common Core State Standards for ELA & Literacy in History/Social Studies- Text Exemplar- Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. From Chapter 9.
- Common Core State Standards for ELA & Literacy in History/Social Studies- Text Exemplar- Freedman, Russell. Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. From the Introduction: "Why They Walked"
- DBQ- NYS- Civil Rights
- Remember the Titans - Gregory Allen Howard
- Quizlet
- Chapter Collage
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