Civil Rights: Reading Primary Sources
Analyze letters, speeches, and photographs from the movement to build source skills.
Supports
5 supports1
Photograph slide
2
Document packets
2
analysis sheet
3
Discussion prompts
4
Exit ticket
Déroulé de séance
4 phases, 55 minObjectif
Students can read a civil rights era primary source and explain what it reveals about its author, audience and purpose.
1
Do now: image analysis
Project a movement-era photograph and run a see–think–wonder routine.
8 min
classe
Photograph slide
2
Source stations
Rotate through three documents, sourcing and corroborating each one.
25 min
groupes
Document packets
analysis sheet
3
Socratic discussion
Discuss how the sources together complicate a single narrative.
17 min
classe
Discussion prompts
4
Exit reflection
Students write which source they trust most and why.
5 min
seul
Exit ticket
Les supports interactifs s'ouvrent en aperçu lecture seule avant l'achat.
Notes et commentaires
Beautifully sequenced. The misconceptions listed in the teacher notes were exactly the ones my class walked in with.
Really well structured. I adapted the warm-up slightly for my group and it worked beautifully. Saved me hours of prep.
It works fine without the lab kit — I demoed the tricky step at the front and the rest is paper-based.
Used the hook on its own as a starter for a different topic and it still worked.
Great question — I ran it with 28 and just added a third station to keep group sizes down. Worked fine.
Please do share the translation, that would help a lot of us.