Lesson on Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Aim: How were the 1964 Civil Rights Act passed? What were the effects of the civil rights movement on other minority groups' struggles for equality?

Bell Ringer: Civil disobedience is defined as the willful but nonviolent breach of unjust laws. How might this be applied in today’s political climate? Let's discuss. (10 min)

Objectives: 

16.4  Describe the circumstances under which the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed and its evolving interpretation in subsequent Supreme Court decisions.

16.5 Evaluate the effect of the civil rights movement on other minority groups’ struggles for equality.

Agenda:

1. Thoreau and Civil Disobedience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gugnXTN6-D4 (6 min)

What is the message that Thoreau's perspective present?

2. Review Journal 104 (civil disobedience) (5 min)

What are examples of civil disobedience?



16.5 Civil Rights for Other Minorities

3. Review Journal 105 and 106

CIVIL RIGHTS ACT TITLES 1-11 ASSIGNMENT

*Assign three students to summarize how the civil rights movement affected other minority groups.

4. Journal 107 - Evaluate the effect of the civil rights movement on the following minorities: Native Americans, immigrant groups, Americans with disabilities.

*The remainder of the students are to research the eleven titles of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

*There are eleven titles of the Civil Rights Act. Prepare a summary  of the title assigned to you. Be ready to present your research to the class.

*As each group presents, complete journal 108. Your Journal 108 should have eleven sections.

Journal 108 - What were the provisions of the Civil Rights Act? (XI titles)

source: https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/history/35th/thelaw/civil_rights_act.html

We will present our responses for journals 107 and 108 after lunch.


Terms to know: affirmative action, equality of opportunity, equality of outcome, invidious discrimination, civil rights, desegregation, de jure segregation, de facto segregation, boycott, civil disobedience, 

Home Learning:

1. Read 16.6 and 16.7

2. Journal 109 - How did protectionism promote the discrimination of women? (16.6)

3. Journal 110 - Why are explicit quota policies generally unpopular with the public? (16.7)