Lessons
Week 1: We
started out Project WOW by
giving them a broad overview of the Civil Rights Era. In the first
lesson, we gave them different events to place on a timeline.
They had to get them as close to the right year that they could and
then we went over them as a group. They re-wrote these events onto the
timeline once they were in the correct spot. Next, we gave them
pictures to add to some of the events. Our end result was a large
timeline to hang for the open house.
Week 2: Our main focus of this lesson was on vocabuary. We wanted to students to have an understanding of terms that go along with the civil rights era. Each student wrote out some ideas of what they thought terms meant and used them in a sentence. They were then given index cards and pictures and were to write the words on the card and then paste the picture on the back. We have added to these each week when we learn new vocabulary.
Week 3: Ida B. Wells was a journalist and protested through her writing. This week the girls had the chance to be a journalist. They, like Ida had to come up with a topic that they felt strongly about. They wrote and illustrated their own newspaper discusssing the topic of their choice.
Week 4: After discussing the different types of protesting, the girls had to come up with another topic to protest. We discussed the differences in issues that were protested during the Civil Rights era and issues being protested today. They chose one of these topics to protest. They made a protest sign and came up with a chant or slogan to go along with it. Once they finished the slogan, they protested this idea for each other.
Week 5: This week we worked on geography. We discussed the different locations that Ida B. Wells lived in. She was born in Mississippi then moved to Tennessee. From there, she moved to Chicago, Illinois. The girls were to find these places on the map and used a compass to help them find the locations. They also located places that they would like to travel to.
Week 6: This was our last week of lessons. This week we tied everything together. The main focus of the lesson was on Civil Right's activists that helped Ida. Ida did not do everything alone, many people stood with her. The girls made a flip chart with facts about important civil right's leaders. They then put pictures of the famous leaders onto popsicle sticks and put them in a piece of styrofoam. This was to represent that they all stood together.
Week 2: Our main focus of this lesson was on vocabuary. We wanted to students to have an understanding of terms that go along with the civil rights era. Each student wrote out some ideas of what they thought terms meant and used them in a sentence. They were then given index cards and pictures and were to write the words on the card and then paste the picture on the back. We have added to these each week when we learn new vocabulary.
Week 3: Ida B. Wells was a journalist and protested through her writing. This week the girls had the chance to be a journalist. They, like Ida had to come up with a topic that they felt strongly about. They wrote and illustrated their own newspaper discusssing the topic of their choice.
Week 4: After discussing the different types of protesting, the girls had to come up with another topic to protest. We discussed the differences in issues that were protested during the Civil Rights era and issues being protested today. They chose one of these topics to protest. They made a protest sign and came up with a chant or slogan to go along with it. Once they finished the slogan, they protested this idea for each other.
Week 5: This week we worked on geography. We discussed the different locations that Ida B. Wells lived in. She was born in Mississippi then moved to Tennessee. From there, she moved to Chicago, Illinois. The girls were to find these places on the map and used a compass to help them find the locations. They also located places that they would like to travel to.
Week 6: This was our last week of lessons. This week we tied everything together. The main focus of the lesson was on Civil Right's activists that helped Ida. Ida did not do everything alone, many people stood with her. The girls made a flip chart with facts about important civil right's leaders. They then put pictures of the famous leaders onto popsicle sticks and put them in a piece of styrofoam. This was to represent that they all stood together.