Studies
Date _____________________
ELA: Social
Tuesday
- Vocabulary
- Build
Background
Knowledge
Wednesday
- Cause/Effect
- Brown v.
Board of
Education
HW: Analyze a
Poem
Thursday
- Brown v.
Board of
Education
HW:
FACEBOOK
CHARACTER
PROJECT DUE;
Vocabulary
Review
Friday
Maniac Magee
Character
Project
Presentations
HW: PACKET
DUE
HOMEWORK RUBRIC
Learning
Target
Quality
Exceeding (4)
Meeting (3)
I complete my
homework to
the highest
quality.
I complete my
homework to an
acceptable
quality.
Developing
(2)
I partially
complete my
homework.
Beginning (1)
I do not
complete my
homework.
Monday Night:
Analyze a Poem
Langston Hughes was a famous African-American poet in the early 1900s. The speaker of
this poem is an African American child. This poem compares a merry-go-round to
segregation laws. Read the poem to answer the questions below.
Merry-Go-Round
By Langston Hughes
Where is the Jim Crow1 section
On this merry-go-round,
Mister, cause I want to ride?
Down South where I come from
White and colored
Cant sit side by side.
Down South on the train
Theres a Jim Crow car.
On the bus were put in the back
But there aint no back
To a merry-go-round!
Wheres the horse
For a kid thats black?
Curious
Confused
Upset
Annoyed
Surprised
Angry
I infer that the child, or speaker of the poem, feels________________________________
because
1 From the 1890s 1960s, a majority of states enforced segregation through Jim Crow
laws. The most common types of Jim Crow laws ordered public places (schools,
restrooms, restaurants, etc.) to keep black and white areas separated.
2
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Tuesday Night:
Vocabulary Matching
Directions: Match the vocabulary words on the left with the definitions on the
right.
_____ 1. civil rights
_____
2. Discrimination
_____ 3. prejudice
_____
4. desegregation
_____ 5. segregation
_____ 6. boycott
_____ 7. integration
_____ 8. citizen
Wednesday Night:
(Finish Maniac Magee Facebook Character Project)
Thursday Night:
Vocabulary Review
Word Bank
discrimination
state governments
desegregate
prejudice
segregation
boycott
civil rights
citizens