| "There
Was A Certain Type of Fire That No Water Could Put
Out…" Personal Stories of Liberation from
The Civil Rights Movement
The purpose of this unit is to help students draw
connections between the people and events that helped
shape the history of the Civil Rights Movement and
the social issues that influence their lives and choices
today. Through the process of research, analytical
and reflective writing, students will study why and
how individuals struggled to change their lives and
the world around them through their involvement with
a social movement. They will investigate the degree
of personal sacrifice that individuals had to make
for the collective benefit of all.
TOPIC
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
OBJECTIVES
By the end of this unit, students will:
- understand the reasons individuals joined a movement
to effect social change
- identify and evaluate the strategies people used
to effect change in their lives and in the lives
of their communities
- determine how individual sacrifice can lead to
collective and individual benefit
- identify people who helped to advance the cause
of civil rights for all citizens and evaluate their
historical significance
- compare and contrast their ideas about personal
and social change to the ideas, within the context
the 1950s and 1960s, of the historical individuals
they studied
- identify a contemporary social issue and discuss
their motivation for implanting social change
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