Focus Standard: Teaching Tolerance Curriculum - Justice Anchor Standard: Students will analyze the harmful impact of bias and injustice on the world, historically and today.
Format: Junior Scholastic Article (link)
Complexity (Grade Level / Use): 1000L Above Level / Teacher Led for guided reading or Peer Supported in discussion groups
Description: This article describes how issues of the civil rights movement continue to be relevant today. Wilmore outlines how housing, politics, and education are still issues that need reformation. After reading this article, students will understand that the civil rights movement did not end in the 60s.
Potential Use:
- Students research current civil rights issues in pairs and present information to the class.
- Students read the article in small groups and answer discussion questions.
- Students find examples of text pertaining to housing, politics, and education in Brown Girl Dreaming.
Wilmore, K. (n.d.). Civil rights: How far have we come? Junior Scholastic. Retrieved from http://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=4794