Separate But Equal?  The Jim Crow South

Janet Smith Strickland, Ph.D.,

 

 

Overview

 

This technology based lesson, entitled Separate But Equal?  The Jim Crow South, includes the use of WebQuests.  A WebQuest is an inquiry type lesson where all or most of the resources students need to complete the lesson are found on the Internet.  This lesson could be used as an introductory activity as a motivation for the series or it can be used directly after the first film.  Students in grades 5-12 would benefit from the lesson.

 

National Curriculum Standards met by this lesson (NCSS):

 

Time, Continuity, and Change

Civic Ideas and Practices

 

State Curriculum Standards met by this lesson:

 

Social Studies Standards (QCC):

  1. Traces the expansion and limitations of individual rights through court decisions.
  2. Examines the African-American quest for political, economic and social equality.
  3. Examines the influences that ethnic groups have had on the historical development of the United States.
  4. Analyzes the social, political and economic results of Reconstruction.
  5. Describes and analyzes the social changes in the United States from 1870-1910.

               - "Jim Crow" laws in the South

               - The New Immigration

               - Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896), and

- W.E.B. DuBois opposes views of Booker T. Washington.

  1. Traces the events and identifies the influential personalities of the Civil Rights Era from 1947 to the present.

Core Social Studies Skills (QCC):

1.      Analyzes interpretations of same event from different sources.

2.      Acquires and processes information by using thought processes (recall, translation, interpretation, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation).

3.      Compares, analyzes and evaluates artifacts in relation to subject content.

4.      Locates and interprets data from multiple types of sources, e.g., newspapers, specialized references, periodicals, computer databases and internet sources.

 

Time Required:

 

3-4 Class periods

 

 

 

Materials:

 

Computers with Internet and PowerPoint Access

 

The Lesson:

 

Students will be researching and creating a television news broadcast with the topic being the Jim Crow South.  The entire lesson can be found on-line (See link at bottom of page).

 

Assessment:  Print out the attached rubric at the end of the page.

 

Related Works:

 

The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis

See poetry by Frederick Douglass

 

Interdisciplinary Links

 

Through this lesson, students will read literature from many different genres.  The students will also use many core study skills

 

 

This lesson was submitted by Janet Smith Strickland, a Social Studies method professor at the State University of West Georgia.