LESSON PLAN: Equality and Civil Rights: a Chronology of Black History

LEVEL: 14-18 High School

SUBJECT AREA: History, Sociology

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

At the end of the unit, students will be able to:

- recognise the major events concerning the history of black people living in the United States of America

- identify the most important personalities who fought for the achievement of Civil Rights

- become aware of the role and importance black people had within the history of the United States of America

- debate about the main issues concerning the history of black people in the United States of America

- gather data by comparing or analysing maps

- develop reading skills concerning slavery books

- test hypotheses about the history of the United States of America.

TEACHING RESOURCES (Lesson plans and ideas for students' assessment)