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African American Voices and Reconstruction: What Does It Take To Secure Equality? Unit PlanAfrican American Voices and Reconstruction: What Does It Take To Secure Equality? Unit Plan
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9th - 12th
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Social Studies & History
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African American Voices and Reconstruction: What Does It Take To Secure Equality?

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This African American Voices and Reconstruction: What Does It Take To Secure Equality? unit plan also includes:
  • African American Voices and Reconstruction (.html)
  • African American Voices and Reconstruction (.docx)
  • The Fifteenth Amendment. Celebrated May 19th, 1870
  • A Call for a Convention of the Colored Inhabitants of the State of New York
  • Frederick Douglass Speech “What the Black Man Wants”
  • Newspaper Account of a Meeting between Black Religious Leaders and Union Military Authorities
  • June 5, 1865: Norfolk’s Black Community Presents Address for Equal Rights
  • Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
  • Joint Resolution Proposing the Thirteenth Amendment
  • Joint Resolution Proposing the Fourteenth Amendment
  • Joint Resolution Proposing the Fifteenth Amendment
  • The Civil Rights Act of 1866
  • The Freedmen's Bureau
  • Glimpses at the Freedmen’s Bureau. Issuing Rations to the Old and Sick
  • The Freedmen's Bureau Records
  • Reconstruction Map of Federal Military Districts (.jpg)
  • Harper’s Weekly Cover The First Vote
  • Radical Members of the First Legislature after the War, South Carolina
  • The First Colored Senator and Representatives - In the 41st and 42nd Congress of the United States
  • Welcome to Nicodemus
  • South Carolina's 'Black Code'
  • The Colored American Magazine, September 1900 (Vol. 1, No. 4)
  • The Other Black Wall Streets
  • Virginia House Joint Resolution 65, 2012 (.pdf)
  • Eric Foner: The Significance of Reconstruction in American History
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High schoolers research the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, as well as other primary source documents, to determine Reconstruction's impact on the North and South. The 34-page inquiry-based lesson includes a staging question and supporting questions that set researchers on their path. Formative performance tasks scaffold for the summative performance task that asks scholars to craft an argument, using evidence from their research, to respond to the compelling question of what it takes to secure equality.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

guided inquiry, reconstruction, the reconstruction era, equality, black history month, african american history, the fifteenth amendment, primary source analysis, primary source images, primary sources, argumentative writing, arguments, supporting evidence, the fourteenth amendment, the thirteenth amendment

Instructional Ideas

  • Use the resource during February's Black History Month
  • Plan for extra prep time to collect and prepare the many resources required for the lesson

Classroom Considerations

  • Requires a project device to display the Fifteenth Amendment Celebration image
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Pros

  • Includes an optional Taking Informed Action extension activity that has participants put to use what they have learned about addressing unequal treatment under the law

Cons

  • None

Common Core

W.9-10.4 W.11-12.4 RH.9-10.1 RH.9-10.2 RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.2

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