A Civil Rights Movement Word Study

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.