Race,
Riots, and Reality
Summer Fellowship Project
2008
By: Amos Lee
Lesson 5:
Race, Riots, and Reality
Abstract:
In this lesson students will work on their summative
project where they review, analyze, and present what they learned about race,
riots, and reality through multimedia.
Essential
Questions:
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What role does
government have to ensure equity and justice among its people?
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What should
citizens do when laws are unjust?
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What are legal
ways to protest?
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How can people
change unjust laws?
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Who is the
government accountable to?
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Why did
segregation and Jim Crow laws exist?
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Why do racism,
discrimination, and bigotry exist?
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What causes a
population to riot?
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Is the
government responsible for serving all its citizens?
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Why is their so
much emphasis on race in our society?
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Why does most of
society believe race to be biological in light of new scientific evidence
proving otherwise?
Enduring
Understandings:
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Students will
understand how there is both change and continuity from the past to the
present.
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Students will
understand the intricacies of the Jim Crow system on everyday life during the
Jim Crow era.
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Students will
learn about the role of government in ensuring the safety and wellbeing of its
citizens.
Procedures
& Summative Assessment:
1. Take
students to the computer lab and have them choose which project they want to
work on.
2.
Depending on their project, give them the correlating rubric.
3.
Remind them that they can be creative and choose their topic of study,
however, it must be based on the lessons they have learned throughout this unit
and the primary sources from the Illinois State Archives.
4. Once
they complete the projects, give time in class to have students present their
projects or play their recordings or videos.
Projects
Project #1:
Glogster Poster
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Students should
go to Glogster.com and create a poster that answers one or more of the
essential questions.
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Glogster Poster (digital poster) Rubric
Project #2:
Video/Animoto
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Students should
create a video and use Animoto to edit the video. They should answer one or more of the essential questions.
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Video/Animoto Online Tutorial
Project #3:
Podcast
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Students should
write and create a Podcast that answers one or more of the essential questions.