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Lights, camera, action! Participants are now ready to conduct a live interview with Rev. Shuttlesworth (or other participant)
Read poem “Ballad of Birmingham” to group. Use BCRI Resource Gallery to introduce participants to video interviews.
Have participants prepare specific questions which can be asked of civil rights leader Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth (or other participant)
Ask specific questions about peple and events of the Civil Rights Era. Get participant’s reactions.
Let participants conduct a mock oral history interview. Have at least 2 participants role play and others ask questions.
Sources of Information
Give group specific assignments on individual or incident from the period. Using the list of available resources, create a diagram
Let participants create posters or small drawings of key leaders or events of the era. They must find an image and create a line drawing from it.

Using Oral History as an Educational Resource

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Subject:

Social Studies

Grade:

Intermediate, Middle School

Concept:

Resources

Bridge:

Sources of Information

Content:

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I. Curricular Framework

Concept:

Resources

Essential Question:

What role do oral resources play in research?

Bridge:

Sources of Information

Content:

Outcomes:

II. Standards Aligned

III. Instruction and Assessment

1. Connect: Connecting to the Concept Experientially

Objective: Build background and focus on the Civil Rights Movement.

Activity: Participants will play the Civil Rights Trivia Game based on video interviews from the Richard Arrington, Jr. Resource Gallery.

Assessment: Observe verbal and non-verbal participation.

2. Attend: Attending to the Connection

Objective: Analyze the Q1 activity by group discussion.

Activity: Ask participants how they felt and why.

Assessment: Participants responses to class discussion.

Assessment, Phase One, Level of Engagement, Fascination:

3. Image: Creating a Mental Picture

Objective: Create a bibliography and videography of resource material available on the Civil Rights Movement and its participants.

Activity: Participants will listen to poems and view slide/video presentation focusing on the Civil Rights Movement.

Assessment: Participants write a “diary” entry to express what they learned.

Assessment, Phase Two, Seeing the Big Picture:

4. Inform: Receiving Facts & Knowledge

Objective: Participants will realize that individuals and events of the Civil Rights Era have historical importance.

Activity: Participants should be provided with materials on the Civil Rights Movement (books, magazines, videos, guest speakers, etc.) Upon completeion of presentation, class should be instructed to express key ideas artistically; create posters, drawings, murals or compose songs, short stories or poems.

Assessment: Participation in art activity.

Assessment, Phase Three, Success with Acquiring Knowledge:

5. Practice: Developing Skills

Objective: Participants will complete five (5) index cards.

Activity: Participants will use the resources of the school or public library to select a particular aspect of the Civil Rights Movement they would like to research. The selections should be focused on the State of Alabama and the city of Birmingham.

Assessment: Participants will complete five (5) index cards that give full bibliographic information regarding their subject. This information should be annotated (giving some idea of what information is contained in the material.)

Assessment, Phase Four, Success with Acquiring Skills:

6. Extend: Extending Learning to the Outside World

Objective: Participants will work in cooperative groups to share and brainstorm their research plans using the infomration in the index cards.

Activity: Participants will listen to information on how to conduct oral history interviews-how information is researched before an interview can take place. Participants will use the gallery’s database to investigate the topics selected in Q3. Participants will be required to document research for later use.

Assessment: Examine participants’ research

7. Refine: Refining the Extension

Objective: Participants compile research into journal and edit. Journals may be used as power point, video or written entries.

Activity: Participants cooperatively edit research into journals containing several participants’ contributions. Note participants should be grouped based upon the relatedness of their material.

Assessment: Examination of completed journals. Each cooperative group will turn in a teacher-made form indicating they have completed their editing assignment.

8. Perform: Creative Manifestation of Material Learned

Objective: Participants share the result of their findings.

Activity: Participants, based on ability, will conduct mock orientations to the Civil Rights Institute, give overview of the resource gallery and share sources of related material. Some participants can conduct an interview with noted, local civil rights activist.

Assessment: The effectiveness of tours and tutorial The completion of interview conducted by participants.

Assessment, Phase Five,Performance, Creative Use of Material Learned: