PBL+Civil+Rights


 * The Era of Civil Rights:**
 * View from the Nation and View From the Trenches**
 * 53 Points**


 * Student Output**

For each of the following assignments you will most likely need to refer to the Civil Rights Readings Packet.

1. Read Document #1. Summarize what is meant by "View from the Trenches" and "View from the Nation". Discuss at least ONE example of both the "View From the Nation and View From the Trenches" (5 Points)
 * Assignment One - View from the Nation and View From the Trenches (25 Points)**

2. Present your topic (see below) to your classmates. When you are done presenting, your classmates will use clickers to give you feedback on your nation/trenches and ranking. (20 Points)
 * 1) Harry Truman and EO 9981
 * 2) Southern Law Enforcement
 * 3) Montgomery Bus Boycott
 * 4) South’s Sit-ins
 * 5) Earl Warren
 * 6) Dwight Eisenhower
 * 7) Bayard Rustin
 * 8) Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * 9) John F. Kennedy
 * 10) Voter Registration Drives
 * 11) Lyndon B. Johnson
 * 12) Black Panthers
 * Summarize the document
 * Discuss its significance - why is this document important?
 * Relate the photos - what part of the story do they tell?
 * Is it nation or trenches? Why?
 * What is the ranking on a scale of 1-12 (one being important, 12 being least important)

1. While your classmates are presenting, please take notes on their summary, significance, nation/trenches and ranking. (5 Points) 2. At the end of the presentations, you will use your notes to challenge the ranking of one presentation. You must write your challenge on paper and give reasons for the challenge. (5 Points) NOTE: You may use these notes on a multiple choice test we will take at the end of this unit.
 * Assignment Two - Notes of Summaries/Challenge of Rankings (10 Points)**

For each assignment below, please click on Civil Rights Continue (PDF)
 * Assignment Three - Other Civil Rights Topics (18 Points)**

For each topic listed below, (1) Summarize the civil rights issues the group was fighting to change. (2) Discuss the most significant strategies used to achieve the desired issue outcome. (3) Discuss if you think the information was a "view from the nation" or a "view from the trenches". Please state at least one piece of evidence to justify your stance.

1. Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers Revolt (Document One, Slide and video)
 * Cesar Chavez Video

2. The Women's Movement
 * 1) Document Two: Summarize the issues
 * 2) Video: "Makers Women Who Make America"
 * 3) Make a T chart. One the left side will be Issues, and on the right Strategies. Fill out the chart based on the information you see in the film "Makers: Women Who Make America" (Episode One)
 * 4) Why were some women offended by the Women’s Liberation Movement?
 * 5) Look at "Women's Home Economics Test", and then ask yourself, would Betty Friedan approve of the Women's Home Economics Test? Explain using information from the document. Then, would Betty Friedan like the "Women: Then and Now"? Explain using information from the document.
 * Women's Home Economics Test
 * [[file:rsj_women.jpg|Women: Then and Now]]

3. Native Americans and Sovereignty (Document Four and videos) 4. Student Protesters and Radicalization of African American Movement (Document 3, PPT and video) 5. The Silent Majority and Conservative Rights (Document Five and Videos) 6. Harvey Milk and the early Gay Rights Movement