Change We Can Make Unit

Immigration- Lesson 3 Each day is 60 minutes Essential Question/s How do great Americans look beyond the current reality and work toward change? What are some great accomplishments that Americans have made to affect great changes? How has the world around us changed how we see our own current reality? NCSS THEME Time, Continuity, Change Culture VA Standards of learning Social Studies: 3.11 The student will explain the importance of the basic principles that form the foundation of a republican form of government by a) describing the individual rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; and equality under the law; b) identifying the contributions of George Washington; Thomas Jefferson; Abraham Lincoln; Rosa Parks; Thurgood Marshall; Martin Luther King, Jr.; and Cesar Chavez; c) describing how people can serve the community, state, and nation. Fine Arts: 3.13: The student will identify how history, culture, and the visual arts influence each other. Objectives Students will be able to compare major social changes in America by key individuals to the reality that these individuals faced daily. Thinking on Lesson: In lesson three students will focus on the contemporary environments of influential Americans. Day 1: Students will read books on George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Students will discuss how even though they were slave holders both men made it a point to ensure for the future generations individual freedom and rights. Students will also read about how Abraham Lincoln fought the Civil War to give freedoms to both black and white men. Day 2: Students will research the various stages of civil rights by studying Rosa Parks, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar Chavez. Students will look at primary sources to discern what the social norm was for the time and how these individuals decided to change it. Class discussion on thinking not for you but as something bigger than you. Discuss how Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Thurgood Marshall all knew that there was a better way than

the social norm accepted at the time and that these individuals fought in different ways to ensure individual freedoms for blacks that was not realized yet. Tie in Jeffersons dream of ensuring individual freedom, Kings dream of equality. Students will add pertinent info to the class wide timeline.