A Civil Rights Movement Word Study
April 22, 2010
Content Area Vocabulary
One way to enrich students understanding of the vocabulary needed to understand this unit is to make an illustrated dictionary. This was a fun way to incorporate art, and word study into our unit. We created a template that had: room for the word, the definition and a large box for an illustration of what the word meant.
These words were hung throughout the room and used quite often in discussion and writing. The words we used were:
- Boycott
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Civil Rights Movement
- Desegregation
- Discrimination
- Freedom Riders
- Jim Crow Laws
- Institutionalized Racism
- Integration
- Oppression
- Protest
- Prejudice
- Segregation
- Separate but Not Equal
- Stereotype
When the unit was over, we took the words down, laminated them and turned them into a book that now resides in our Non-Fiction library.
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