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MODULE 4 LESSON 1
How do people effect social change?
Hangout Expectations
Expectations
- Mics muted unless asked to speak
- To speak type the number 5 in the chat an wait for your name to be called.
- type questions in the chat box
- Have all materials with you in a quiet place
- be on time for your session ready to work!
WELCOME
Write three to four responses to the following question:
“What are some of the ways that people try to make the world a better place?”
WELCOME
effect as a verb means to cause a result, or bring about a solution.
Teens as Change Agents
Why might it be valuable to consider how teens create change?
LAUNCH
Open to the epigraph, and read it aloud
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Underline a word in the epigraph that relates to the idea of change.
this quote from Dr. King employs parallel structure, so that the grammatical structure of “injustice anywhere” is repeated with “justice everywhere.”
LEARN
Share your choice with a partner, including why you choose that word.
Epigraph for chapter 1:
“I swear to the Lord / I still can’t see / Why Democracy means / Everybody but me.” —Langston Hughes
How does this quote from Langston Hughes help you better understand what Martin Luther King, Jr. means by injustice?
Read to Understand Claudette Colvin
Read aloud the first paragraph of Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice from “Claudette Colvin: I was about four years old” to “I should never touch a white person again” (3).
What do you notice and wonder about Claudette’s opening story?
Read from “If, like Claudette Colvin, you grew up black in central Alabama” (3) to “or swim together in the same pool” (4).
What do you notice and wonder about life during Jim Crow?
Segregation means legal, forced separation of people or communities based on race.
Read the remainder of chapter 1. Pause on each page and look at the images, and pause on page 8 to read the text box “Montgomery: Transportation Pioneer”.
What do you notice and wonder about Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice?
cont...
Reread the final paragraph of chapter 1, from “One such student” to “social movements in U.S. history” and ask:
“What do you notice and wonder about Claudette Colvin?”
Now that you’ve read the opening of the book, what do you notice about the purpose of an epigraph? What role does it play in building your understanding of the text so far?”
Write one to two sentences about the role of the epigraph in building their understanding of Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice.
In this module you will conduct a research project in which you pose a question about a topic and independently research sources to explore your question. Before you begin this investigation, you need to understand what defines a researchable question.
What does researchable mean?
Discuss Research Questions
Which of these questions is researchable? Which is not? Why and why not?
How do these two questions help you identify other criteria that would make an effective research question?
Share one noticing and one wondering with a partner.
LAND
WRAP
Reread chapter 1 from Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice and annotate for facts about life during Jim Crow. Additionally, look up a definition of “justifiable” (9).