"Cast Down Your Bucket" Learning Activities for Students Grades 5 - 7
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TABLE OF CONTENTS "Cast Down Your Bucket" Learning Activities for Students Grades 5 - 7 "Cast Down Your Bucket" is a unit of activities designed to assist students explore the Southern way of life from the 1880s through the turn of the 20th-century as African Americans struggled, fought and even died in the search for social and political equality. Pre-Visit Activities 1. Vocabulary The students will become familiar with key terms, ideas and dates. 2. Key People and Dates The students will become familiar with key terms, ideas and dates. 3. Civil War And Reconstruction Timeline The students will construct a timeline using the Reconstruction Time Period. Post-Visit Activities 4. Persuasive Writing Students will write a persuasive paper opposing or defending Booker T. Washington’s educational philosophy. 5. Interviews of Famous Americans Students will research famous Americans who lived and influenced the era 1865-1915. 6. Historical Speeches Students will analyze the "Atlanta Address" and the “Harpers Ferry” Speech and fill out a speech analysis form. 7. Debate The students will compare and contrast opinions about the same historical and/or current event issues. 8. Trial The students will role-play an experience in the United States Court Room Pre-Visit Activities VOCABULARY Objective: The students will become familiar with key terms, ideas and dates. SOL Objectives:English: 5.4, 5.7, 5.8, 6.3, 6.5, 6.9, 7.4, 7.6, 7.10 History: USI.1, USI.9, USI.10, USII.1, CE.2, CE.3, CE.5, CE.6, CE.8, CE.9, CE.10, CE.11, CE.12 Materials: paper, pencil, task cards ________________________________________________________________________ Procedure: The students will define and understand the following terms. 1. Reconstruction: The period after the Civil War in which the country went through the process of readmitting the southern states into the Union. 2. “Cast Down Your Bucket”: Dr. Washington’s belief that people should make the most of any situation they find themselves in. He felt that economic opportunity for African Americans was in the south instead of moving to the north. His idea was that the two races should look to one another for economic advancement for the country. 3. Equality: The belief that all people are equal regardless of race or gender. 4. Ignorant: Lacking knowledge, awareness, or experiences of a subject. 5. Constitution: The system of laws and principles of a government in the United States of America. 6. Amendment: A revision or change made in a law. 7. Segregation: The policy of separating racial groups in schools and public facilities, and compelling different races to live in separate neighborhoods. 8. Jim Crow Laws: Laws passed mainly by local legislatures that relegated African Americans to second class citizenship. These were the original laws that started segregation when “Whites Only” and “Coloreds Only” started appearing as a result of Jim Crow legislation. 9. Integration: When all races were brought together as the barriers of segregation were removed. 10. Politics: The skill of government; methods and tactics used in government. 11. Industry: Large scale production, manufacturing, or enterprise. 12. Commercial: Business that is done for profit. 13. Economic: The management of income and expenditures for the fulfillment of material gain for people. 14. Social: Having to do with society, or people living together. 15. Philosophy: A belief system of ethics. 16. Citizenship: Membership of an individual in a nation by birth or naturalization, including entitlement to certain rights like the right to vote. 17. Lynching: Murder of an individual by a mob without the benefit of a fair trial. 18. Disenfranchisement: To deprive a right, especially the right to vote. 19. Humanities: The study of literature, philosophy, and the fine arts. 20. Vocational: Pertaining to a trade or occupation. 21. Black Codes: Laws passed right after the Civil War ended that discriminated against African Africans, and made the status of African Americans closer to slaves than free people. The Black Codes bound African Americans to contracts that gave them no legal rights and in some cases forbid them to leave the plantation they worked on. The Black Codes said no southern state would set up schools for African Americans. Suggested Activities: 1. Students can define words in groups or with partners to help divide the list. 2. Students can write words and definitions on task cards. Students write the word on the left side of card and definition on right side of card. Students cut a design line down the center of the card. When students are practicing vocabulary, the words and definitions will fit together like a puzzle. Pre-Visit Activity Key People and Dates Objective: The students will become familiar with key terms, ideas and dates. SOL Objectives: English: 5.4, 5.7, 5.8, 6.3, 6.5, 6.9, 7.4, 7.6, 7.10 History: USI.1, USI.9, USI.10, USII.1, CE.2, CE.3, CE.5, CE.6, CE.8, CE.9, CE.10, CE.11, CE.12 Materials: paper, pencil, task cards ________________________________________________________________________ Procedure: The students will define and understand the following people and dates 1. Frederick Douglas: (1817 – 1895) The most prominent African American of his time. Douglass was a leading abolitionist who published a newspaper titled the North Star, and his home was an important stop on the Underground Railroad. 2. W.E.B. Du Bois: (1868 – 1963) Booker T. Washington’s most vocal critic. Du Bois called for African American equality and was co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) 3. Andrew Carnegie: A northern philanthropist who donated generously to Booker T. Washington as Washington built Tuskegee Institute. 4. President William McKinley: The 25th President of the United States of America from 1897 to 1901. The first President Dr. Washington advised on race relations in the south. 5. President Theodore Roosevelt: The 26th President of the United States of America from 1901 to 1909. Washington counseled Roosevelt on race relations. In 1901 Washington dined at the White House with Roosevelt making Washington the first African American to dine in the White House as a guest. 6. President William Taft: The 27th President of the United States of America from 1909 to 1913. Taft used Washington as an adviser on race relations. 7. President Woodrow Wilson: The 28th President of the United States of America from 1913 to 1921. Wilson was the President who changed the policy of using Booker T. Washington as an advisor on race relations in the south. 8. Pinckney B.S. Pinchback: (1837 – 1921) An African American leader in the Republican Party in Louisiana. In 1868 he was elected to the Louisiana State Senate and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention. In 1882 he became Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana and when the Governor died in 1872, Pinchback briefly served as interim governor. In 1872 Pinchback was elected as both Congressman and Senator of Louisiana but was prevented from taking his seat because of racism. 9. Blanche K. Bruce: (1841 – 1898) In 1874 he was elected the second African American elected to serve as an United States Senator for the state of Mississippi. 10. September 18, 1895: The date Booker T. Washington delivered the Atlanta Address that later came to be known as the Atlanta Compromise. This speech solidified Dr. Washington as the leading African American spokesman for his race. 11. July 4, 1881: The date Booker T. Washington founded and taught his first class at Tuskegee Institute. 12. Nov. 14, 1915: The date of Booker T. Washington’s death. 13. John D. Rockefeller: A northern philanthropist whose donations assisted Booker T. Washington in building Tuskegee Institute. 14. Plessy vs. Ferguson: (1896) This Supreme Court ruling legalized “Separate but Equal.” 15. 13th Amendment: Abolished slavery in the United States of America. 16. 14th Amendment: Made African Americans citizens of the United States of America. 17. 15th Amendment: Gave African American men the right to vote. 18. Ku Klux Klan: A secret white supremacist organization founded in 1866. The KKK used terror and violence to prevent African Americans from voting, supporting education, owning land, or in any way challenging white superiority. 19. The Freedmen’s Bureau: A federal agency established to assist the four million recently freed African Americans make the transition from slavery to freedom. The bureau set up schools, helped African Americans find jobs and housing, and worked towards ensuring fair working contracts. 20. The Grandfather Clause: A method used to disenfranchise African American men. The clause was a way to eliminate the literacy test for poor whites. If one’s grandfather could vote then that person did not have to take the literacy test, but if one’s grandfather could not vote then it was necessary that the person pass the literacy test to vote. Only white men had grandfathers who could vote, so illiterate whites kept the vote while illiterate African Americans were kept from voting. Suggested Activities: 1. Students will identify key people and dates in groups or with partners to help divide the lists 2. Students will write names or dates and definitions on task cards. Students write the name or date on the left side of card and definition on right side of card. Students cut a design line down the center of the card. When students are reviewing people and dates, the names or dates and definitions will fit together like a puzzle. Pre-Visit Activity CIVIL WAR & RECONSTRUCTION TIMELINE Objective: The students will construct a timeline using the Reconstruction Time Period. SOL Objectives:English: 5.7, 5.8, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, 7.8, 7.9, 7.10 History: USI.1, USI.9, USI.10, USII.1, USII.3, CE.1, CE.2, CE.3, CE.8, CE.12 Math: 5.1, 5.11, 5.17, 6.5, 6.9, 6.18 Materials: paper, pencil _______________________________________________________________________ Procedure: 1.