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A Certain Type of Fire

ESSENTIAL QUESTION

Why and how do people struggle for social justice?

SUB QUESTIONS

  • What changes would you like to make in your life in the lives of people in your community? Why these changes? How will you go about trying to make these changes?

  • What challenges might you meet as you try to make this challenges and how will you meet these challenges?

  • What were the motivations and goals of the people who joined the Civil Rights Movement? What challenges did they meet and what strategies for overcoming these challenges did they adopt? How were their goals, challenges, and strategies tied to the specific time and place in they lived?

  • How do your goals, reasons, and strategies for achieving personal and social change compare and contrast to the goals and strategies of the people who joined the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s.

 

 

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Urban Dreams
OUSD Curriculum Unit

"There Was A Certain Type of Fire That No Water Could Put Out…" Personal Stories of Liberation from The Civil Rights Movement

Subject: Social Studies
Grade Level: 11th
Lesson Plan Authors:
Maliika Herd-Chambers
and Stan Pesick

Organization: OUSD