Day 1: Introduction
What Are Civil Rights?
Scavenger Hunt by Cierra
Etchberger
On the first day of the unit,
students will dive right into
their exploration of what
civil rights are by
completing a virtual
scavenger hunt that covers
multiple types of questions
spanning a few different
topics while exploring their
own thoughts about civil
rights.
-55 minutes with a
technology component
Day 4: Women's
Suffrage
Women Get the Right to
Vote by Allison Robbins
On the forth day, students
will be watching scene from
the HBO movie, Iron Jawed
Angels, in attempt to further
understand the suffrage
movement and the life of
Alice Paul. Students will also
finish the timeline from the
previous day, by including
women successfully getting
the right to vote.
-55 minutes with a
biography component
Day 2: Women's Day 3: Women's Suffrage
Suffrage Continuation of the Women's
Start of the Women's Suffrage Movement by
Suffrage Movement by Allison Robbins
Allison Robbins
On the third day of the
On the second day, unit, students will be creating
students will be both an individual and a
participating in a class timeline of all of the
reenactment of the Seneca major events and people in
Falls convection. Students the suffrage movement. They
will use this activity to will also watch and
understand how the participate in a mock debate
suffrage movement got between Alice Paul and
started. Furthermore, they Carrie Chapman Catt.
will analyze the Declaration
of Sentiments. -55 minutes with a speaking
component
- 55 minutes with a primary
source component
Day 5: African American Day 6: African American
Civil Rights Civil Rights
What is Segregation? by The First Major Cases Against
Megan Ryan Segregation by Megan Ryan
On the fifth unit On the sixth day, we will
day, the students will be focus on Rosa Parks and her
learning about contributions to the African
what segregation is and American Civil
the laws that accompany it Rights Movement. Through
(Jim Crow Laws). At the this discussion, the students
beginning of the lesson, the will also learn about one of
students will be able the
to experience first hand most influential organizations
what segregation looks like. in our country, the
They will also be learning National Association for the
about the 13th, 14th and Advancement of Colored
15th Amendments, People (NAACP). The activity
which directly affected the that accompanies will allow
African American people. the students to use different
The class will participate in perspectives while focusing
reading on a specific situation.
comprehension, through the
reading of Ruth and the -55 minutes with a biography
Green Book by Calvin component
Alexander Ramsey.
-55 minutes with a
reading comprehension
component
Day 7: African American
Civil Rights
Martin Luther King Jr. and
His Influence by Megan
Ryan
On the seventh day, the
students will learn about
the important contributions
of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
particularly focusing on his I
Have A Dream speech.
The accompanying activity
will allow students to write
a letter to Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr., comparing how
things are today when it
comes to the rights of
individuals.
-55 minutes with a
writing component
Day 8: African American
Civil Rights
The Impact Jim Crow Made
on Civil Rights by
D'nae Monford
On the eight day, students
will learn about how African
Americans were treated
poorly and unfairly, which
ultimately lead to rioting.
The students will be
discussing the laws that
oppressed African
Americans, the
assassination of MLK, sit-in
protests, protests of voter
rights, and segregation
protests. They will be using
cause and effect charts in
small groups, ending with a
reflection journal.
-55 minutes with a writing
component
Day 9: African American
Civil Rights
Egg Cracking by Dnae
Monford
On the ninth day, the
students will be learning the
concept of all of us being
different, but the same. They
will be conducting a science
experiment with brown and
white eggs. This will prove
the point that even though
we are all different on the
outside; we are all the same
on the inside.
-45 minutes with a science
component
 Day 10: African
American Civil Rights
Day at the African
American Museum by
D'nae Monford
On the tenth day, the
students will be taking a
trip to the African American
Museum of Philadelphia.
During this trip, the
students will be walking
through a summary of all of
the information they have
discussed in class of African
American civil rights. They
will fill out a field trip
worksheet that describes
the different exhibits shown
at the museum and give
feedback on what impacted
them the most.
-55 minutes with a field trip
component
Day 11: Modern Day
Civil Rights
Modern Day Civil Rights:
Secion 504 by Christina
Collins
On day eleven, the students
will be participating in a
hands-on activity where
they will visit different
classroom stations that
focus on disabilities that
Section 504 protects.
By participating in this
activity, the students will
have the opportunity to
understand what it may feel
like to have a disability. By
the end of this lesson, the
students will be able to
demonstrate an
understanding for
what section 504 is, why it
is a civil rights and how it
connections to our history's
past civil rights movements
by completing
a worksheet.
-55 minutes with a current
event component
Day 12: Modern Day Civil
Rights
Then & Now by Christina
Collins
To conclude the unit, on day
twelve, students will recall
the information they have
learned throughout the unit
and complete a 'Then and
Now" worksheet where they
will have to analyze pictures
from the past and draw or
write how the situation is
different today. Students will
also collaborate and
discuss five ways how
women, African Americans,
and people with disabilities
are treated equally today.
This lesson also includes a
poll of the class and a
creating a bar graph based
off of the poll data.
-45 minutes with a
mathematical component