The final project of the unit takes the lessons and makes them one final cohesive idea. The goal of the project is to have students use a medium of their choosing, PowerPoint, poster board, binder, and explain to the group how they want their rights to impact their lives. The project has a couple of parts. It starts with the KWL and web worksheets, these worksheets ask the students to organize their thoughts on what they learned in each part of the unit. For example, one student might have felt very impacted by the Ruby Bridges story. So in his KWL under W, he might put that he wants to learn more about the actual desegregation of schools, how many students were treated. That might have connected to him because he if he’s ever felt bullied or picked on at one in school. Another student might organize her web with the central focus being voting rights and maybe she was interested in the women’s suffrage movement. Once their webs are done, they will look at the W on the KWL and pick a topic to research on the computer. This topic is up to them because they will also be researching and thinking about how they want their rights to impact their lives in the future. The goal of the project is to be able to on how they want either their voting rights or their right to education to impact their lives in the future, how is what they now know going to make a difference to them?
Common Core State Standards
RL.4.1: Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
W.4.1: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
W.4.4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
SL.4.3: Identify the reasons and evidence a speaker provides to support particular points.
