Digital Unit Plan Template

Unit Title: Civil Rights and Voting Rights Name: Equal Rights
Content Area: History Grade Level: Grade 11
CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):
11.10
Students analyze the development of federal civil rights and voting rights.
5. Discuss the diffusion of the civil rights movement of African Americans from the churches of the rural South and the urban North, including the resistance to racial desegregation
in Little Rock and Birmingham, and how the advances influenced the agendas, strategies, and effectiveness of the quests of American Indians, Asian Americans, and Hispanic
Americans for civil rights and equal opportunities
6. Analyze the passage and effects of civil rights and voting rights legislation (e.g., 1964 Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act of 1965) and the Twenty-Fourth Amendment, with an
emphasis on equality of access to education and to the political process.

Big Ideas/Unit Goals:

 Understand the goals, methods and accomplishments of the civil rights

 Assess the role the movements played in changing American ideas and beliefs about minority groups
 Analyze the factors and American ideologies that pushed the fight for equal rights further
 Identify the key players and individuals that played a significant role in the fight for equal rights (as well as the sacrifices they made)

Unit Summary:

Students will take part in a series of activities to develop an understanding of how individuals throughout the world have worked to achieve equal
rights for themselves and others:

 Students are introduced to the topic of human rights by taking guided notes on a Prezi on African American Civil Rights.
 Following this, will be a iPad lesson that will have students delve deeper into a civil rights group, who they are, popular slogans, leaders, and
their accomplishments. The next portion of this lesson plan will be a concept map focusing on a civil rights leader.
 The final project is a presentation on a civil rights group with a group of 3-4 students

Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level: K-W-L Chart: Students develop classroom and
individual Know-Wonder-Learn charts about plants. Students use
these to access prior understanding, brainstorm ideas, think about
questions to research, and reflect on their learning.
Formative: Project Journal: Students are prompted at
the end of each project step to create journal entries in
response to prompts. During conferences review the
project journal entries and provide feedback and clarify
misunderstandings. Students use the journals to record
new learnings and reflect on their thinking. Anecdotal
Notes: In this informal assessment, notes from
observations and interactions with individuals and
groups and from the conferences provide
documentation for final assessment. Quizlet: Quiz on
civil rights key terms
Presentation Outline: Review students’
presentation outlines and provide feedback,
suggestions, and corrections before they begin working
on their multimedia presentations
Summative: K-W-L Chart: Students develop classroom
and individual Know-Wonder-Learn charts about
plants. Use the KWL initially to gauge readiness and
interests and then during the unit to promote
metacognition of learning progress as students revisit
them and reflect. Review journal: entries at the end of
the unit to assess understanding. Presentation Civil
Rights Presentation assess verbal communications
skills, as well as quality of civil rights content, design
and research, following the final project presentations
Outline: Review students’ presentation
outlines and provide feedback, suggestions, and
corrections before they begin working on their
multimedia presentations

Lesson 1 (Teacher Lecture)

Student Learning Objective: Acceptable Evidence Lesson Activities: Guided Notes - teacher-prepared hand-outs that outline or map lectures, but leave "blank"
Describe the processes that (Assessments): Guided space for key concepts, facts, definitions, etc. As the lecture progresses, students then fills in the spaces with
led to the expansion of Notes content from the Prezi. Prezi here. Guided notes here.
rights for minority groups.
Lesson 2 (iPad Lesson)
Student Learning Objective: Acceptable Evidence: Lesson Activities: Civil Rights Pamphlet – Using Pages students will create a pamphlet introducing a civil
 Identify individuals and Teacher will make sure rights group, who they are, popular slogans, leaders, and their accomplishments. Full directions here.
groups that influenced students are following iPad Example here.
the Civil Rights lesson instructions.
Movement.
 Describe methods that
activists used to protest
violation of civil rights.
Lesson 3 (Graphic Organizer)
Student Learning Objective: Acceptable Evidence: Lesson Activities: Popplet Civil Rights Leader Concept map - A concept map or conceptual diagram using
Identify individuals and groups Teacher will make sure Popplet is a diagram that depicts suggested relationships between a key civil rights leader and concepts. Full
that influenced the Civil Rights students are following Civil Directions here. Example here.
Movement. Rights Leader Concept map
instructions.
Unit Resources:
Historical Text Archive - the Historical Text Archive publishes high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of
historical subjects.
Common Lits - CommonLit's provides a free online library of short stories, poems, news articles, speeches, historical.
The United Nations - this is the UN's official website. Attached is the The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) that sets out fundamental human rights to be universally
protected.
The National Archives and Records Administration - an independent agency of the United States government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical
records and with increasing public access to those documents, which comprise the National Archives.
Argument Wars - in this game, you debate historical Supreme Court cases by advancing arguments and backing them up with supports. Play New Jersey v. T.L.O., Brown v. Board of
Education, Miranda v. Arizona, Texas v. Johnson, or Gideon v. Wainwright today!
Khan Academy - Expert-created content and resources for civil rights.

Useful Websites:
Civil Rights and the 1950s: Crash Course US History #39 - This Crash Course Video gives us an overview of the early days of the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s.
The 1960s in America: Crash Course US History #40 - This Crash Course tells of a rapidly changing America in the 1960s, and rights movements were at the forefront of those
changes.
Civil Rights & Liberties: Crash Course Government #23 - This Crash Curse gives you an overview of civil rights and civil liberties. Often these terms are used interchangeably, but
they are actually very different.
We Shall Overcome: Main Map - Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement. [graphic] Historic Civil Rights Places in the United States. Click here to be directed to a Bing map of this
travel itinerary's sites to get directions including street addresses and coordinates.