Black History iMovie Documentaries

Purpose: Students will be able to:

1. Read: Use purposeful reading skills to access and comprehend information (Access)

2. Think: Use critical thinking skills to analyze and assess information (Evaluate)

3. Select: Use critical selecting skills to synthesize information (Use)

Common Core Standards: Curriculum Standards

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.1

Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.2

Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.3

Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.4

Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area.

• CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.5

Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts.

Engage: Warm-up

Inferences: "Who said and Why did they say it"

Part 2: IMOVIE

Jesse Jackson

Sojourner Truth

Jackie Robinson

Muhammad Ali

Rosa Parks

Martin Luther King Jr.