Black Peoples of the USA Civil Rights topic

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Black Peoples of the USACivil Rights topic

• Rationale

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History Skills

• Visual Textual Source Analysis
• Independent Research
• Structured Writing
• Describing Analysing Features of Past Societies
• Cause Consequence
• Making Links historical contemporary societies

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Generic Concepts

• Compare Contrast
• Cause Effect
• Seeing Links within between topics
• Making Connections
• Significance

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Where does the topic fit in?

• Black Peoples of the USA
• This is a two-term topic, split over three
  separate, but complimentary, sections.
• Each section has its own Objectives and Key
  Question.
• Together, the three sections form a comprehensive
  study of the story of African-Americans.
• The topic begins with Africa before Slavery, and
  ends in 2003 when three Black actors won the
  three major Oscars.
• The topic forms the entire study of the popular
  Black Peoples of the Americas Scheme of Work.

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Where does this section fit in to the topic?

• Civil Rights
• The section begins by Comparing Contrasting the
  objectives and the methods of the two most famous
  post-WWII black leaders.
• The students then move on to look at the two most
  famous cases of desegregation in the 1950s
  the Bus Boycott and Little Rock High School.
• From these very positive events in the struggle
  for Civil Rights, the students move on to look at
  the case of Emmett Till and consider whether this
  case represented a move forwards, or a move
  backwards, for black civil rights in the USA.
• The positive/negative theme then continues
  students evaluate the causes and the consequences
  of the 1965 Watts Riots, before the final outcome
  assesses the living conditions at the start of
  the Twenty-First Century, again through visual
  source analysis.
• The final lesson of the topic sees a ranking
  exercise, living graph and piece of structured
  writing to assess the situation for black people
  in the USA today. Students could also consider
  which was the most important turning point in
  the struggle for civil rights.