1960's WebQuest
Pre-Reading Project:
For this assignment you will need to choose one of the following options. This assignment is worth 50 points and you need to make sure that you take your time and are thorough in covering your topic. Make sure to use spell check and to check your grammar.
1. Make an illustrated time line of the Civil Rights Movement, using pictures of the times to illustrate the events. Explain the events to the class and discuss why you choose the photos you did.
2. Explore the music that was popular in 1963, especially in the African American community. Find recordings or lyrics for the songs in The Watsons. What does the music tell you about the times? Research two of the artists. How did the fact that they were African Americans influence their careers?
3. What did people wear in 1963? What fashions were popular for formal wear and casual? What hair styles were in vogue? What was "conked hair," and how was it conked? Assemble a poster that gives us an idea of how people appeared in 1963.
4. Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.? Research his influence on the Civil Rights movement. Pick one speech and prepare a reading of it. Make a poster board of the speech and annotate if for display.
5. Make a collage that shows how the life of an African American in the late 1950s or early 1960s would have differed from that of a white person in the south. Research the "Jim Crow" laws. In your collage show places where African Americans would have been denied admittance or treated differently or places where their lives were "separate but equal."
For this assignment you will need to choose one of the following options. This assignment is worth 50 points and you need to make sure that you take your time and are thorough in covering your topic. Make sure to use spell check and to check your grammar.
1. Make an illustrated time line of the Civil Rights Movement, using pictures of the times to illustrate the events. Explain the events to the class and discuss why you choose the photos you did.
2. Explore the music that was popular in 1963, especially in the African American community. Find recordings or lyrics for the songs in The Watsons. What does the music tell you about the times? Research two of the artists. How did the fact that they were African Americans influence their careers?
3. What did people wear in 1963? What fashions were popular for formal wear and casual? What hair styles were in vogue? What was "conked hair," and how was it conked? Assemble a poster that gives us an idea of how people appeared in 1963.
4. Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.? Research his influence on the Civil Rights movement. Pick one speech and prepare a reading of it. Make a poster board of the speech and annotate if for display.
5. Make a collage that shows how the life of an African American in the late 1950s or early 1960s would have differed from that of a white person in the south. Research the "Jim Crow" laws. In your collage show places where African Americans would have been denied admittance or treated differently or places where their lives were "separate but equal."