Housing: “As evidence of their regard they gave us a suit of furniture, which cost about $25, and we set up housekeeping in one of the captain’s two-room shanties”.
LSNP
LSUATT pg.185
Housing
: “Every house I had ever lived in was a one or two room shack with a out door toilet”. CAM pg.26
Educational opportunities
: “I was a man nearly grown before I knew how to count from one to one hundred. I was a man nearly grown before I ever saw a colored teacher. I never went to school a day in my life. Today I can’t write my own name, though I can read a little”. LSNP LSUATT pg.184
Very few share-croppers owned books. C +
LSNP
LSUATT pg. 184
LSNP
CAM denotes source
LSUATT
“Life Story of Negro Peon” in
Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans As Told by Themselves
, ed. by Hamilton Holt (New York), 1906)
Anne Moody,
Coming of Age In Mississippi
, (New York, 1968)
C + LSNP denotes a conclusion drawn by the student, and the LSUATT source.
Once the information has been placed on the chart (more than one source should be used for each topic heading) the teacher should aid students in writing concluding evaluations for each column. Each concluding evaluations should be given a rating: Poor, Fair, Good, Excellent)
Concluding Evaluation I-Housing
: Housing for Negroes in rural southern communities was usually very poor, consisting of one and two room wooden structures. With the birth of children, over crowding and lack of privacy were unavoidable situations. Housing: Poor __x Fair __ Good __ Excellent __
When a concluding evaluation for each column has been written the teacher should assist students in using the evaluations for a final written, or oral presentation. If written the student would list all sources used, symbols would not be allowed. If oral then student would mention all sources used. These exercises (oral, written) will give students an opportunity to improve skills related to presentation of data.
Charts, graphs, tapes, records, lectures, and maps should be used on the daily lessons, and homework assignments to give students a total view of the sources from which information can be obtained, (examples may be found in the sample lesson plans). These various sources would also allow students to improve such skills as map reading, reading for the main idea, identifying primary sources from secondary sources, and the construction and usage of tables.
I feel that usage of this model will give students an opportunity to gain the skills necessary for academic success. The model is centered around the organization of data, the presentation of data, documentation, the investigation and usage of sources which in themselves afford an opportunity for the development of certain skills. The value to be gained from this approach provides (for students) a foundation for academic success that goes beyond the subject matter of a particular discipline.