Lesson Plan #2

One Hundred Years After Slavery

Introduction:
This lesson will demonstrate how major accomplishments in the Civil Rights Movement often equated to
slow moving social changes.

Objectives:
Content/Knowledge:
1. Students will analyze the interview the Booker Wright and determine when the interview
was conducted.
Process/Skills:
1. Each student will create an evaluation of the context/setting of the interview and then
revise after additional information/descriptors are added.
Values/Dispositions:
1. The students will explore the potential outcomes of this nationally broadcasted clip.

Standards:
State Illinois Learning Standards

STATE GOAL 16: Understand events, trends, individuals and movements shaping the
history of Illinois, the United States and other nations. Why This Goal Is Important:
George Santayana said "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
In a broader sense, students who can examine and analyze the events of the past have a
powerful tool for understanding the events of today and the future. They develop an
understanding of how people, nations, actions and interactions have led to today's
realities. In the process, they can better define their own roles as participating citizens.
D. Understand Illinois, United States and world social history.
16.D.4a- (US) Describe the immediate and long-range social impacts of slavery.
National National Council for the Social Studies

II. Time, Continuity, & Change Social studies programs should include experiences that
provide for the study of the ways human beings view themselves in and over time, so that
the learner can:
2d. identify and use various sources for reconstructing the past, such as documents,
letters, diaries, maps, textbooks, photos, and others;
2f. use knowledge of facts and concepts drawn from history, along with elements of
historical inquiry, to inform decision-making about and action-taking on public issues.

Syntax Procedures

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Engagement:
a. Teacher Instructions
1. I will ask the students to tell me how life would have changed after the passing The Civil
Rights Act of 1964
b. Resource
1. Timeline, Civil Rights Act 1964 Document.
c. Student Activity
1. The students will draw from what they learned about segregation from the previous
lesson.
Exploration:
a. Teacher Instructions
1. I will play a video for the class and ask the students to take notes.
2. I will give no information about when or where the video was filmed
b. Resource
1. Booker Wright video and interview transcript.
c. Student Activity
1. The students will investigate the interview and begin to problem solve the unknown
information based off of their prior knowledge and opinions.
Explanation:

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a. Teacher Instructions
1. I will ask the students to share their ides with each other for 3 to 5 minutes.
b. Resource
1. Students notes.
c. Student Activity
1. The students will explain their ideas and collaborate to form a general consensus.
Elaboration:
a. Teacher Instructions
1. I will explain that this video aired nationally on NBC in 1966, and was filmed in 1965.
2. I will play the video again after a group discussion regarding the students prior
assessments.
b. Resource
1. Timeline, transcript and video
c. Student Activity
1. The students will watch the video again, now knowing that this aired nearly two years
after the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Evaluation:
a. Teacher Instructions
1. I will explain that this video shocked many of the white population throughout the
country.
2. I will ask them to re-think how this interview may have affected the life of Booker Wright.
3. We will discuss the known events that followed the airing of this film.
4. I will tell the students that he was murdered a couple of years later.
b. Resource
1. Previous notes,
2. www.bookerwright.com
c. Student Activity
1. Students will reassess their understanding of the video.
2. The students will imagine the setting now with more detail.
3. The students will speculate on who would have murdered him

Resources (Source Citations & Bookmarks)

http://youtu.be/93iz98-BDvw

Transcript:
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/30/bookers_place_documentary_tells_story_of
BOOKER WRIGHT: Some call me Booker. Some call me John. Some call me Jim.
Some call me [blank]. All that hate, but you have to smile. If you dont, "Whats wrong
with you? Why are you not smiling? Get over there and get me so and so and so and
so!" There are some nice people: "Dont talk to Booker like that. His name is Booker."
Then I got some more people come in, real nice: "How you do, waiter? Whats your
name?" Then I take care of some so good, and I keep that smile. Always learn to smile.
The meaner the man be, the more you smilealthough youre crying on the inside.
http://www.bookerwright.com/2012/07/who-killed-booker-wright.html