Julie's+Lesson+Plan

LESSON: Comparison of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X 11th Grade History: Civil Rights Movement Unit

OBJECTIVES:
 * Students will identify similarities and differences found in photographs and posters of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X using NARA worksheets, Venn Diagrams, and KWL charts.
 * Students will develop questions pertaining to each photo and poster on what more they want to learn.
 * Students will search the internet to answer their questions.
 * Students will develop their own photograph of either Martin Luther King Jr. or Malcolm X

MATERIALS: [|MLK photo] [|Malcom X Photo] [|MLK Poster] [|Malcolm X Poster] Worksheets: NARA Photo Analysis Worksheet, Venn Diagram KWL Chart (drawn on white board)

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Students will do this project during the Civil Rights Unit. This activity will be used in order to introduce these two main figures of the movement, so it will be implemented in the beginning of the unit. Students will have read about John F. Kennedy's road to the presidency, and how he campaigned on the promise to fight for civil rights, but did not act too much upon them. I will review the segregation laws, and the Supreme Court Case: //Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka Kansas (1954)//, which overturned segregation in public sectors. The issue at this point was a lot of defacto segregation and segregation in the private industries. What was going to be done about the inequalities and lack of civil rights that still existed after the Supreme Court Case? This is where the lesson begins.

INTRODUCTION:


 * Review background information of Civil Rights movement as mentioned above.
 * Introduce any of the primary documents methods that have not been used in class, go over how to use them.

BODY:


 * Have students get into groups of 3 or 4 people.
 * Hand out photos of both Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X (see materials)to each group
 * Hand out NARA Photo Analysis Worksheet, one for each photo, so two per group
 * Give students 15 minutes to analyze the photographs and fill out worksheets
 * There will be a KWL chart drawn on the white board in front of the room to go along with the photographs. What the groups have analyzed each photo, they are to fill in one to two entries for the first two sections of the KWL chart. (Each of the two sections must have 1-2 entries by each group.) Each group as they are ready will go up to the board to fill in their entries. The last box on the KWL Chart will be left blank until the end.
 * Once the groups are done with the photographs, each group will receive a poster of MLK, Jr. and Malcolm X (see materials).
 * The groups will analyze and compare/contrast the posters using a Venn Diagram
 * Once the students have completed the diagram, they will again go to the board and make an entry in the KWL charts designated to each poster. Same rules apply, 1-2 entries per group, per box, but not the last box.
 * Once everything is completed, students will use the links from which the posters and photos came from, along with other sources on the internet to look up the background of the photos and posters.
 * Once their research is complete, each group must make 2-3 entries in the last box, "What I've Learned".

CONCLUSION:
 * Groups will hand in their worksheets and diagram.
 * A member of each group will stand up one at a time, sharing with the class their contributions to the KWL charts on the board.

ASSIGNMENT: TIME Magazine "Person of the Year" Project
 * Students will choose either MLK or Malcom X as the "Person of the Year" cover for TIME Magazine.
 * Students will draw a cover of TIME Magazine featuring which ever man they chose. They cannot use a picture from a cover that already exists.
 * Included on their cover will be the drawn picture, the TIME logo, and a quick title of a cover story that would be included inside the magazine. The title must be something catchy that makes the reader want to read about the person.

I like your assignment that you have the students complete. This lesson also tied into your previous lessons in this unit very nicely. I am sure that your students would love this lesson as well for those who enjoy the creativity of drawing and being their own illustrator of a magazine. ~ Tauni Lindsey