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A Tale of Segregation: Fetching Water

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Title:

A Tale of Segregation: Fetching Water

URL:

https://www.readworks.org/article/A-Tale-of-Segregation-Fetching-Water/cfdeb9e2-866e-42e9-b476-38b415db0a2d

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Learning Activity

Overview:

Students will read the memory of a traumatic childhood incident of William Minner near his hometown of Spiro, Oklahoma. In this reading passage, students read a story about the separation of water fountains during segregation. A video, vocabulary support, and comprehension questions are included for this activity.

Content Standard(s):

Social Studies
SS2010 (2010)
Grade: 5
United States Studies: Beginnings to the Industrial Revolution

12 ) Summarize successes and failures of the Reconstruction Era.

• Evaluating the extension of citizenship rights to African Americans included in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States

• Analyzing the impact of Reconstruction for its effect on education and social institutions in the United States

Examples: Horace Mann and education reform, Freedmen's Bureau, establishment of segregated schools, African-American churches

• Explaining the black codes and the Jim Crow laws

• Describing post-Civil War land distribution, including tenant farming and sharecropping

Unpacked Content

Strand: Economics, Geography, History, Civics and Government

Course Title: United States Studies: Beginnings to the Industrial Revolution

Evidence Of Student Attainment:

Students:

Analyze and describe the successes and failures of the Reconstruction Era.

Teacher Vocabulary:

Reconstruction Era
extension
citizenship rights
amendments
impact
education reform
black codes
Jim Crow
tenant farming
distribution
sharecropping
Radical Republicans
13^th Amendment
14^th Amendment
15^th Amendment

Knowledge:

Students know:

Successes and failures of the Reconstruction Era.
The extension of citizenship rights to African Americans included in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
The impact of Reconstruction for its effect on education and social institutions in the United States( Horace Mann and education reform, Freedmen's Bureau, establishment of segregated schools, African-American churches, among others).
The black codes and the Jim Crow laws.
Post-Civil War land distribution, including tenant farming and sharecropping.

Skills:

Students are able to:

Evaluation successes and failures of historical events.
Compare and contrast changes in historical and political realities as a result of a historical event.

Understanding:

Students understand that:

The Reconstruction Era was a period of success, failures, and conflict that greatly impacted the lives of citizens, including African-Americans.

Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards

AAS Standard:
SS.AAS.5.12- Define the Reconstruction as the rebuilding of the South and its reintegration into the United States; identify at least one success and one failure of the reconstruction era, including the successes of the thirteenth through fifteenth Amendments, the Freedmen's Bureau, Jim Crow laws, sharecropping, tenant farming, the election of African American politicians, and the failures of Black Codes.

Tags:

civil rights, Jim Crow Laws, segregation

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Ginger Boyd

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A Tale of Segregation: Fetching Water