Poems in Two Voices

The sixth-grade Language Arts students wrote and performed poems in two voices concerning a moment that we had discussed related to civil rights and the Civil Rights Movement. Here, two students perform a poem concerning two different perspectives of people who experienced segregation.




Another group performed a poem in two voices concerning the murder of Emmett Till, here:

Time lines for Civil Rights Movement Unit

This is a sample time line created for the Civil Rights Movement unit in Language Arts 6. Students completed these using Dipity, Capzles, Timetoast, and XTimeline, or they completed them by hand.

This time line concerns the events that transpired in the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till:



This time line covers the life and activities of Ruby Bridges as they relate to her integration of the William Frantz Public School in New Orleans, LA:

Ruby Bridges Timeline on Dipity.

The March on Washington

In sixth-grade Language Arts, we studied the Civil Rights Movement and Freedom's Children by Ellen Levine. Students researched various topics, gathered photos, and wrote a script related to a particular topic related to the group's area of expertise. Then, they recorded a vodcast about their event and documented their resources on a bibliography for each group member. Here is a vodcast about the March on Washington:

Birmingham Church Bombing

This vodcast by Natalie, Andrew, Jasmine, and Austin shares their findings on the Birmingham Church bombing after many days of research, script writing, and practice.  Each of the students also completed a bibliography for the resources used.