Aim: What was black civic participation like during Reconstruction?
Bell Ringer: Read article KKK today and discuss.
Objectives:
- Students will distinguish the freedoms guaranteed to African Americans and other groups with the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution.
- Students will assess how Jim Crow Laws influenced life for African Americans and other racial/ethnic minority groups.
- Students will compare the effects of the Black Codes and the Nadir on freed people, and analyze the sharecropping system and debt peonage as practiced.
Agenda:
- Bell Ringer (10 min)
- Video: Chelsea Does Racism (10 min)
- Discuss Journal 15 (5 min)
- Write an editorial: Imagine that you are an African American sharecropper, a carpetbagger, and a White Southern Democrat. Write a paragraph for each supporting their position on Reconstruction. Underline or highlight the terms: 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments, black codes, carpetbagger, scalawag, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and sharecropper. Title: "Reconstruction Editorial"
Home Learning: Complete your editorial.
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