Group 7 Lesson Outline

1.  Why was Lincoln killed?  (Head Teacher:  Jennifer Houmes)

· Where Lincoln was born

· The different types of jobs that he had before he became President

· When Lincoln lived

· Who was in Lincoln’s family (brothers and sisters, wife, sons, etc.)

· Who shot Lincoln

· Where and why Lincoln was shot

· What Lincoln was shot with

· What happened to John Wilkes Booth after he shot Lincoln

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2.  Slavery and what happened after the Civil War  (Head Teacher:  Julie Tuleja)

· What slavery is

· Who was involved in Slavery

· Fredrick Douglas and how he was a slave before he became famous (read book about Fredrick Douglas).

· Related their lives to how it would be if they were a slave and how they would feel to be a slave and how slavery would be now

· Who could and could not vote and how the students felt about that (liked it or did not and why/why not)

· Comparing life now and what life was like during slavery

· Students viewed pictures of slave families and discussed their feelings toward the picture.

· How Lincoln connected to Slavery and the Civil War
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3.  Reconstruction  (Head Teacher:  Nicole Connors)

· What was reconstruction

· When reconstruction happened

· Who helped during reconstruction

· Why reconstruction happened

· What the presidents did to help the country during reconstruction

· Results of reconstruction

· Relationships between their lives and their families

· What Lincoln had to do with reconstruction
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4.  Segregation, Jim Crow Laws, Race Riots (Head Teacher:  Jennifer Houmes)

· Segregation and what it was

· What Jim Crow Laws were and why we had them

· What Race Riots were and why they happened

· Race Riots in Charleston

· How they feel about segregation, and race riots

· The Red Summer and the Race Riots

· Where race riots happened

· How Lincoln connected to segregation and Jim Crow laws
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5.  African Americans from 1870-1920  (Head Teacher:  Julie Tuleja)

· What African Americans had and how they got it

· Why African Americans needed

· Why African Americans moved northward

· How African Americans related to Lincoln and if he had anything to do with the way African Americans were treated

· Different things that happened during the 1870-1920 with African Americans

· “Walk” students through their own time line
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6.  Martin Luther King  (Head Teacher:  Nicole Connors)

· If slavery was abolished, why we needed MLK

· Martin Luther King’s life

· “I Have a Dream Speech”

· Have students write their dreams on clouds (activity)

· How MLK’s speech impacted and who it impacted

· KKK and how they affected segregation and MLK’s speech
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