Introduction
Welcome to your Civil Rights WebQuest. Here you will have the opportunity to learn more about the Civil Rights Movement and key people who were involved. You will conduct research and create a newspaper to publish your findings. You will understand the importance of perspective and how it plays a key role in conflict.
Task
You are a reporter for a newspaper. You're job is to conduct reserach on an event and person of the Civil Rights Movement.
Part 1:
Research 1 from EACH of the following list:
- Freedom Riders
- sit-ins
- organized marches
- boycotts
- school integration
- Plessy vs. Ferguson
- Brown vs. Board of Education
and
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Rosa Parks
- Stokely Carmichael
- Medgar Evers
- Little Rock Nine
- Thurgood Marshall
Part 2:
Write a newspaper article for each subject that you reserached, include a graphic that is relevant for each for article.
Process
In order to complete this task you must conduct research on the topics that you chose for your newspaper. Below are links that will help you with this project....
http://library.thinkquest.org/07aug/00117/civilrights.html
http://www.history.com/topics/civil-rights-movement
http://www.pbs.org/black-culture/explore/civil-rights-leaders/
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_brown.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/antebellum/landmark_plessy.html
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/afamerpeople/p/mlking.htm
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0bio-1
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ca-Ch/Carmichael-Stokely.html
http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history-medgar-evers
http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/ar1.htm
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/thurgoodmarshall1.htm
In addition to the websites you may also use the books provided from the library.
Part 2: Use the following website to create your newspaper articles.
1. Select "Get Started"
2. Select "Start"
3. Select "Newspaper"
4. Select "Templete 2"
5. In the first text box type a name for your newspaper
6. In the second text box type your name
7. In the third text box type your homebase teacher
8. You have 4 blank article boxes. One box needs to contain information about the Civils Rights Movement. What is the background? Why is it important? In another text box you need to write your article about the 1st topic. In another text box you need write your 2nd topic article. In your last text box you need to write a response to the following question: Why is perspective important when looking at the conflict of the Civil Rights Movement.
9. You need to select 2 images that are relevant to your article and upload them to your article. Select "Save as Final" and safe it to your "H" drive with your name as the file name.
Evaluation
| CATEGORY | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Article of Event | Student included all relevant evidence about their event AND included WHY this event is important to the Civil Rights Movement | Student included all releveant evidence about their event. | Student included mostly relevant evidence about their event. | Student includeds mostly irrelevant evidence about the event. |
| Artilce on person | Student included all relevant evidence about their person and included WHY this person is important to the Civil Rights Movement | Student included all releveant evidence about their person. | Student included mostly relevant evidence about their person. | Student includeds mostly irrelevant evidence about the person. |
| Graphics | Graphics are in focus, are well-cropped and are clearly related to the articles they accompany. | Graphics are in focus and are clearly related to the articles they accompany. | 1 of the graphics are clearly related to the articles they accompany. | None of the graphics are not clearly related to the articles OR no graphics were used. |
| Response to Civil Rights Question | Student answers what the CRM is and why it is important. Justified with evidence. | Student answers what the CRM is and why it is important. | Student answers either what the CRM is OR why it is importnat. | Student does not answer. |
| Response to Perspective Question | Student answers why perspective is important when looking at the conflict of CRM AND supports with evidence. | Student answers why perspective is important when looking at CRM. | Student attempts to answer why perspective is important when looking at the CRM. | Student does not answer. |
| Time Used | Student received no behavior marks. | Student received 1 behavior mark. | Student received 2 behavior marks. | Student recevied 3 or more behaviors marks |
Conclusion
You have successfully completed your journey back to the Civil Rights Movement. You are a published reporter for your newspaper!
Credits
| Credits |
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| Zonda Dailey Mariah Graham David Nixon |