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Rosa Parks: The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement

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Class members listen to a passage on Rosa Parks, examine images of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and respond to questions based on the text. They then craft a free-verse poem that recounts her achievements and reveals why she is considered the mother of the Civil Rights Movement.

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CCSS: Designed
Concepts
rosa parks, civil rights, civil rights leaders, the civil rights act of 1964, the civil rights movement, segregation, desegregation, discrimination, the montgomery bus boycott, free verse, read-alouds
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Additional Tags
social studies
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Instructional Ideas
  • If class members are unfamiliar with Think-Pair-Share and Read-Aloud, take time to model these processes
Classroom Considerations
  • Sixth in a series of nine lessons from a read-aloud anthology about the American Civil Rights Movement

Pros
  • Included in the 14-page packet are inferential and evaluative discussion questions as well as masters for the images
Cons
  • The instructional masters for the free-verse writing assignment are not included in the packet