Lesson 3: Jim Crow Laws/ Segregation
Duration of Days: 4
Lesson Objective
SWBAT identify the variety of ways in which legal segregation was applied to minorities across the United States and to evaluate the methods used to challenge and enforce these concepts from the end of the 19th Century up to the Civil Rights Era.
What is segregation and is it inherently wrong?
Jim Crow Laws
Segregation
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Lynching
Anti-lynching laws
Angel Island
Chinese Exclusion Act
Bracero Program
Zoot Suit Riots
INQ 9–12.2, INQ 9–12.3, INQ 9–12.4, INQ 9–12.8, INQ 9–12.13, INQ 9–12.16, HIST 9–12.3, HIST 9–12.4, HIST 9–12.5, HIST 9–12.6, HIST 9–12.7
Teachers can teach a variety of lessons on the topics and terms listed above. The focus of this lesson within the larger unit of Progress and Change is to demonstrate the slow pace at which change can occur and the processes by which situations can worsen over time without direct action taken.
These lessons should require students to analyze and evaluate not only the past, but present day examples.
DOK 2-3
At the most basic level students should be able to define the term segregation and provide examples of how it was enforced. Students should be encouraged to evaluate attempts to overcome segregation and criticize the variety of solutions proposed at the time. The most advanced students can make inferences about how the history of segregation continues to play out in modern politics.
This lesson is just one example of an assessment which would fulfill expectations for this topic.