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America's Civil Rights Movement introduces students to the Civil Rights Movement through the use of personal narratives. The curriculum uses the "Into, Beyond, and Through" strategy to help students explore information from the kit.
"Into" activities discover prior knowledge and establish additional information or understanding to be gained. "Through" the content activities encourage comprehension and integration of knowledge. "Beyond" activities make connections, personally and in the classroom, and help students apply the knowledge they have gained.
Critical literacy is an important component of this guide. Critical literacy, like critical theory, empowers the powerless. There is an emphasis on language, both written and spoken, in this guide to empower student activism and involvement.
Teachers can download the web-exclusive materials at right to expand classroom use of the kit. All ten of the guide's activities are also online, some with printable extras.
On page 5 of the guide, teachers can reference the kit's content against academic standards, drawn from Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education: 2nd Edition.
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