Content Standards:
Students will explain and give examples of how after WWII, America experienced economic growth (e.g., suburban growth), struggle for racial and gender equality (e.g., Civil Rights Movement), the extension of civil liberties (e.g., desegregation, Civil Rights Act) and conflict over political issues (e.g., McCarthyism, U.S. involvement in Vietnam).
Learning Target:
I can summarize the key events of the Civil Rights Movement, & I can evaluate the impact of each.
Today's Agenda:
Students will explain and give examples of how after WWII, America experienced economic growth (e.g., suburban growth), struggle for racial and gender equality (e.g., Civil Rights Movement), the extension of civil liberties (e.g., desegregation, Civil Rights Act) and conflict over political issues (e.g., McCarthyism, U.S. involvement in Vietnam).
Learning Target:
I can summarize the key events of the Civil Rights Movement, & I can evaluate the impact of each.
Today's Agenda:
- Background Question: Create a Trading Card for Malcolm X.
- Notes: The Civil Rights Movement
- Reflection Question: How did the views of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King compare? Why did you think Malcolm X's message was so popular during the 1960s?