Name: Understanding Oppression Class/Subject: Current World Issues Date: December 1, 2010 Student Objectives/Student Outcomes 1) Students will

express their previous knowledge on oppression and discuss their opinions with other students and the full class. 2) Students will understand different types of oppressions African Americans faced during the history of the United States. Content Standards: 16.D.4a (US) Describe the immediate and long-range social impacts of slavery. 16.D.2c (US) Describe the influence of key individuals and groups, including Susan B. Anthony/suffrage and Martin Luther King, Jr./civil rights, in the historical eras of Illinois and the United States. 16.D.4b (US) Describe unintended social consequences of political events in United States history (e.g., Civil War/emancipation, National Defense Highway Act/decline of inner cities, Vietnam War/antigovernment activity). 16.A.4a Analyze and report historical events to determine cause-and-effect relationships. 18.B.3a Analyze how individuals and groups interact with and within institutions (e.g., educational, military). Materials Resources: - Posters, Post it Notes - Computer Projector - PowerPoint presentation - http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/what.htm

Teacher Goals: 1) To gauge students prior knowledge of oppression. 2) To get students to critically analyze the reasons and effects of oppression 3) To teach students a useful history of oppression against African Americans during United States history. Start of Class: Teacher will introduce the new unit the class with be starting on freedom. Teacher will explain that in our contemporary world and in our own lives (relating to current issues) there are still modes of oppression and people fighting for freedom. To better identify and analyze how people are fighting for freedom today, we must understand how people have been oppressed in the past and different how these people created forms, spaces, and agents for fighting for freedom. Teacher will explain that we will begin with oppression and freedom in the African American community and expand from this foundation.

Introduction: Teacher will have students get into groups of 4-5 and give them a poster and post it notes. Teacher will ask students to write their answers to the 4 questions on the post it notes and place them on their poster. Teacher will then have groups hang up their posters around the room. After that, all of the students will visit the other groups posters and mark down which answer(s) they found most interesting, useful, informative, etc. Teacher will then lead a discussion having students share their rationale for placing certain answers on cards and marking other groups answers. Teacher will facilitate and connect answers that will lead into PowerPoint on oppression that first explains oppression then gives a short history. Lesson Instruction: 1) Teacher will go through PowerPoint Presentation, while prompting students to take notes. 2) Teacher will facilitate questions about oppression and freedom throughout to connect examples with start of class activity 3) Teacher will answer any questions students have Assessments/Checks: Teacher will end class by assigning students to write a paragraph that gives their own definition of oppression and then the students must find an event/example of oppression related to the PowerPoint (can be a more specific example of the covered material or a new example). Next class period, teacher will have students volunteer to share and also grade responses to make sure students understood introduction to topic. Close Up/Wrap Up Review: Teacher will explain how understanding oppression is crucial to understanding the fights for freedom that will discussed later in class. Teacher encourages students to ask questions along the way to clear up misunderstandings and fill in any informational gaps.