GCSE History Edexcel: USA Conflict Home & Abroad - Extent of Civil Rights Progress (Lesson 16)

This lesson concludes this part of the topic which covers ‘Conflict at Home’ and Civil Rights. The lesson examines the impact of the assassination of Martin Luther King and uses this to help evaluate how much progress the civil rights movement had made by 1975.

I have included two fact sheets (one slightly differentiated) with the information needed for this part of the course which can be found on the final two slides. Therefore, no other resources are needed for the teaching of this lesson.

The lesson includes the following:
Slide 1: Title slide
Slide 2: Lesson Key Questions
Slide 3: Comparison of two differing historical interpretations about the progress of civil rights
Slide 4: Comparison of two different historical interpretations in an exam style format - printable version for students
Slide 5-6: Introduction to the 12 mark ‘Explain why’ question with analysis of the question itself an suggested structure
Slide 7-8: A timeline of the key events from 1964-75 - students need to use this to help them think about the reasons why there was progress or limited progress in civil rights.
Slide 9: A table for students to fill in their ideas about progress/little progress
Slide 10-12: A differentiated version of the above tasks whereby students organise various statements about civil rights into ‘progress’ or ‘limited progress’. Printable sheets and answers supplied
Slide 13: Overall evaluation questions
Slide 14-15: A fully animated and interactive ‘blockbusters’ game to help students recap some of the main events/people/terms from unit 2. Teacher question sheet and answers provided.
Slide 16-17: Fact sheets based on the Edexcel specification

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