ASSESSMENT - TWO PARTS

I. Have students return (day 9 or 10) to their initial response to the question on handout #2,"What did Dr. King mean when he said, "there is a certain kind of fire that no water can put out? How does this idea connect to the events and individuals of the civil rights movement?" and using what they have learned through this unit, revise their response. This work can be done as an in-class quiz done without any notes, or an open-note assignment done at home.

II. Essay on the following topic – "What similaritie and differences are there between the changes you want to make, and the strategies you might use, and the changes people who joined the civil rights movement wanted to make and the strategies they used?"

IMPORTANT VOCABULARY

• Civil Rights Movement
• Goals
• Injustice
• Social Justice
• Economic Justice
• Strategy
• Strike
• Boycott
• Sit-in
• Oral history
• Metaphor
• Injunction