The Civil Rights Movement

Media and Literacy StrategiesBrian Carlin and Philip Panaritis

NYCDOEBekah Fisk

Paley Center

March 9, 2013

Picture Prompts

The Final Word

Common Core Learning Standards

Reading Informational Text:Grade 8:Key Idea 1.: Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Craft and Structure: 8.5 Analyze in detail the structure of a specific paragraph in a text, including the role of particular sentences in developing and refining a key concept.

Speaking and Listening?

What Civil Rights Leader said the Following?

But honesty impels me to admit that our power has often

made us arrogant. We feel that our money can do

anything. We feel that we have everything to teach other

nations and nothing to learn from them. We often feel that we have some divine mission

to police the whole world.

We are arrogant in not allowing young nations to go through the

same growing pains and revolutions that characterize our

own history.We arm Negro soldiers to kill on

foreign battlefields, but offer little protection for their

relatives in our own South.

We are willing to make the Negro 100% of a citizen in warfare, but

reduce him to 50 percent of a citizen on American soil.

 Of all the good things in life, the

Negro has approximately one‑half those of the whites. Of the bad he

has twice that of the whites.

Nashville Sit-In Newspaper Assignment

Task: You are a journalist for the NY Times in 1961. You have been sent down to Nashville, Tennessee to report on what has been taking place. Your job is to write an article that summarizes the events as they are documented in the video you have just watched. This is not an editorial so you must leave your opinion out and be careful not to use words or phrases that can be seen as argumentative or persuasive. Your goal is to inform the readers in New York of what is taking place.

Common Core Learning Standards:Writing Standards for Social Studies 6-12 4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. Reading Standard for Literacy in History/Social Studies  Key idea 2. 2.    Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary that makes clear the relationships among the key details and ideas.