Introduction to the Civil Rights Movement (KS3)

Part of a three lesson SOW about the CRM in America.

WALT: Evaluate methods used to fight for equality in 1960s America.
Level 3: Identify the meaning of the phrase Civil Rights
Level 4: Describe the Jim Crow Laws and examples of how they linked to life in the 1960s
Level 5: Explain methods in which Civil Rights leaders fought for equality.
Level 6: Analyse the methods you think would be most successful and explain why.

Starter: what does Civil Rights Movement mean? using Frayer model
task one: video task
Task two define and describe the Jim Crow Laws using images
Task three: describe and explain methods of protest
task four: analytical discussion and annotation of President Kennedy’s Civil Right’s Address.
Plenary: 3 - 2 -1 plenary task