Unit 4: Slavery, Civil War, Reconstruction, and Civil Rights

Slavery

•  New Unit:  Slavery and its Legacy Slides Introduction

• Episode 1 of African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross and complete Notetaker

• Color Line Activity Organizer, Color Line Reading, and Color Line Laws and Policies

• Bacon's Rebellion (from Facing History)

• Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives (2003) and complete the notetaker

• Unchained Memories Discussion Slides

• Ch. 1 of Freedom's Unfinished Revolution: "Slavery, Sectional Strife, and War" 

• Freedom's Unfinished Revolution Ch 1 Discussion Slides

• Primary Source: Mr. Caulkins' Testimony

Civil War

• Ch. 2 of Freedom’s Unfinished Revolution: “Westward Expansion, Sectional Strife, and Civil War.”

• Discussion of Ch. 2

• John Brown's Final Statement and John Brown Introduction and Questions 

• Introduction to Civil War

• Freedom's Unfinished Revolution: Ch. 3 and Ch. 3 Notetaker

• The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross, Episode 3: Into the Fire and Notetaker

• Civil War Songs: "Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "God Save the South"

Reconstruction

• Healing and Justice Survey

• Creating a Plan for Reconstruction Activity

• The Political Struggle, 1865-1866 Video from Facing History and Notetaker

• Reconstruction Timeline and Annotations Instructions

• Timeline Activity

• Reconstruction Vocabulary

• 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments 

• Reconstruction Mixer and Reconstruction Mixer Instructions and Discussion Slides

• Presidential Reconstruction Activity 

• Slavery by Another Name and Notetaker

• Interracial Democracy Video (short) and Notetaker

• Violence and Backlash Video (short) 

• Violence and Backlash notetaker (video notes,  Colby primary source, and visual analysis and Images of Violence and Backlash

• "Bartow Black" by Timothy Thomas Fortune

Segregation and 

Civil Rights

• Segregation and Civil Rights Vocabulary

• Legalized Segregation Slides

• Reactions to Plessy v. Ferguson

• Chart

• Lecture: Voting

• "Strange Fruit"

• Lecture: Segregation and Racial Violence

• Tulsa Race Massacre Slides

• Tulsa Race Massacre Reparations Group Activity

• Reparations Timeline and Reflection

• Segregation in Housing and Notetaker

• Lecture: Desegregation 

• Reactions to Brown v. Board of Education

• Civil Rights and Voting

Fences

• Fences Notetaker

• Fences Film

• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Article and Maslow's Hierarchy's of Needs Notetaker

• Final Discussion Slides and Handout

• Introduce Extra Credit Assignment: Poster

• P. 54 Close Analysis

• Troy and Rose Metaphor Analysis

• Scene and Page Number Guide

Assessments

• Reconstruction Essay:

  • Prewriting for Reconstruction Essay (viewable by all link) and Google Classroom Link

• Final Socratic Seminar