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ELA: Social

Civil Rights Homework Packet #1

Weekly Calendar 3/21 3/25

Monday
- Review Maniac
Magee
assessment

Tuesday
- Vocabulary
- Build
Background
Knowledge

Wednesday
- Cause/Effect
- Brown v.
Board of
Education

HW: Analyze a
Poem

HW: Vocabulary HW: Finish

Matching
Facebook
Character
Project

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?

1. Where does the child mean by down south?

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2. Who is he referring to as White and Colored?
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3. What problem does the child face in this poem?
____________________________________________
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4. Based on this poem, what can you infer about the childs feelings? Choose from the
list of feelings:
Excited

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

(noun) the ending of the legal separation of different races

_____
2. Discrimination

(noun) State and local laws that enforced racial

segregation. These laws were enacted primarily in the
South between the 1890s-1960s.

_____ 3. prejudice

(noun) the unfair treatment of a person or group based on

gender, race, age, religion, or other differences

_____
4. desegregation

(noun) a policy allowing all races to use the same facilities

and attend the same schools; the end of segregation

_____ 5. segregation

(noun) rights that guarantee freedom and equality for all

citizens

_____ 6. boycott

(noun) an official member of a country or state

_____ 7. integration

(noun) a policy of separating groups of people from one

another, often based on race

_____ 8. citizen

(verb) to refuse to buy or take part in something in order

to make a point or force a change

_____ 9. Jim Crow

Laws

(noun) a preformed opinion, usually negative, that is

developed without an understanding of the person, group,
or subject

Wednesday Night:
(Finish Maniac Magee Facebook Character Project)

Thursday Night:
Vocabulary Review
Word Bank
discrimination
state governments
desegregate

prejudice
segregation
boycott

civil rights
citizens

Fill in the blank.

Fill in the blanks in the sentences below using the word bank. Make sure you use the
correct form of the word by rereading the sentence afterwards.
1. African Americans fought for many years before they were granted many
______________________.
2. In a democracy, __________________ vote to determine who the leaders will be.
3. In the South, different states had different segregation laws. Segregation laws
were made by _________________________.
4. Because of _____________________, whites and African Americans did not eat at the
same restaurants.
5. The feeling of not liking someone because of the group he or she belongs to is
___________________; acting on that feeling is __________________________.
6. In the 1970s and 1980s, many cities tried to _____________________ the schools, or
create more racially mixed schools, by busing students.
7. In the 1950s, many African Americans chose to ___________________ buses and
collaborated with neighbors to walk or carpool together.