Social Movements/ Decades Project
Daily Agenda HERE - helpful if you've been absent
Civil Rights Movement
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Martin Luther King Jr. vs. Malcolm X speeches:
Compare and Contrast (central themes/goals/emotions) using the documents below:
MLK- Letter from Birmingham City Jail excerpt -April 1963 -Letter written to inspire the Black community after MLK was arrested for protesting in Birmingham
Malcolm X - Message to Grass Roots (see pdf on right) - Nov. 1963 -speech given at the Northern Negro Grass Roots Leadership Conference
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Civil Rights and Modern Movements:
HERE is an essay comparing the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s/60s and the Black Lives Matter movement
Other Social Movements
Group Jigsaw:
Join a group of 4 or 5. Each member chooses a DIFFERENT social movement of the 1960s/1970s below. Each member will spend a day researching their movement and creating a storyboard with a section for each of the bits of required information.
Movements:
Requirements on your "Storyboard" worksheet:
- important dates
- important leaders
- quote
- tactics used
- conditions that provoked the movement
- changes wanted/changes made
- actual changes made
- significance of the movement
PLUS....have some sort of accompanying VISUAL of primary source material (picCollage, pics saved that you scroll through, powerpoint, etc.)
Resources for Research:
Join a group of 4 or 5. Each member chooses a DIFFERENT social movement of the 1960s/1970s below. Each member will spend a day researching their movement and creating a storyboard with a section for each of the bits of required information.
Movements:
- Women's movement/Women's Liberation
- Chicano Movement/Latin-American
- Gay Rights/ Homosexual Rights Movement
- Native American Rights
- Environmental Rights
Requirements on your "Storyboard" worksheet:
- important dates
- important leaders
- quote
- tactics used
- conditions that provoked the movement
- changes wanted/changes made
- actual changes made
- significance of the movement
PLUS....have some sort of accompanying VISUAL of primary source material (picCollage, pics saved that you scroll through, powerpoint, etc.)
Resources for Research:
- Textbook (pages 814-841)
- Good primary source links for various protests HERE
- Women's Movement
- Chicano Movement and HERE
- Gay Rights
- Native-American Movement
- Environmentalist Movement
Pop Culture through the Decades
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