Puyallup Civics with Washington State History
Unit Outline
Unit 3 Theme | Civil Rights and Liberties |
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Learning Targets | 1. Understand the guarantees made by the Bill of Rights, including first Amendment rights. (history, civics) 2. Understand the rights and responsibilities of US citizens as well as other residents. (history, civics) 3. Understand the role and function of rights in society. (history, civics) 4. Understand the impact of historic legal cases, including landmark Supreme Court cases, on individual rights, equality, and freedoms. (history, civics) 5. Recognize landmark court decisions and legislation that affected and continue to affect tribal sovereignty. (history, civics) 6. Students will understand the function and role of criminal laws/codes in society, including the rights of the accused. (history, civics) 7. Understand the key differences between criminal and civil cases. (civics) 8. Students will understand key events and their relationship to the creation of Federal Civil Rights legislation including a discussion of protected and non-protected classes. (history, civics, cultural geography) 9. Students will understand the concept of diversity and the effect of discrimination in society. (history, civics, cultural geography) |
Constitution Day Activity
Constitution Day Activity | iCivics
This interactive lesson gives students a quick snapshot of the Constitution, including the purpose of each article, the powers of the three branches, how a bill becomes a law, and the concepts of separation of powers and checks and balances
Constitution Day - Amendment Edition Lesson Plan highlights the Constitution's amendments and new artwork from the online game Do I Have a Right? This lesson is great for visual and English language learners!
Learning Objectives:
- Illustrate the structure, function and powers of the government in the United States as established in Articles I, II, and III of the U.S. Constitution.
- Describe how the Constitution of the United States provides separation of powers and checks and balances.
Terms of Use: This lesson is copyright iCivics Inc. Educators must sign in to iCivics in order to download materials. Use of these materials is limited to personal study, teaching, and research.
Exploring the Bill of Rights
Exploring the Bill of Rights for the 21st Century | The University of Virginia Center for Politics, Youth Leadership Initiative
Essential to the study of American democracy is a careful examination of the enumerated freedoms and liberties found in the Bill of Rights. Using music, art, and a simulation role play as conduits for understanding, this lesson requires students to analyze the language of the Bill of Rights and apply it’s principals to everyday life.
Learning Objectives:
- Students will interpret and analyze a song lyric related to the Bill of Rights.
- Students will investigate the ten amendments in the Bill of Rights and discuss the importance of these rights to American citizens.
- Students will analyze several pieces of American art and explain their relationship to the rights and freedoms expressed in the Bill of Rights.
- Students will create a bill of rights in a simulation role play.
Terms of Use: Used here with the permission of the UVA Center for Politics’ Youth Leadership Initiative. For additional resources, visit their website and register. Any lesson plan or resource found on the website may be used at the discretion of a participating teacher.
War on Terrorism and Civil Liberties
War on Terror and Civil Liberties | The University of Virginia Center for Politics, Youth Leadership Initiative
Terms of Use: Used here with the permission of the UVA Center for Politics’ Youth Leadership Initiative. For additional resources, visit their website and register. Any lesson plan or resource found on the website may be used at the discretion of a participating teacher.
Struggle for Civil Rights
The Struggle for Civil Rights | The University of Virginia Center for Politics, Youth Leadership Initiative
The American Civil Rights Movement produced tremendous change in American society and politics. At the crux of the movement, was the battle to end segregation in public schools. The first of two lesson plans on Civil Rights, this lesson requires students to explore the legal, political, and social implications of racial segregation and desegregation through the study of two Supreme Court decisions: Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education.
Learning Objectives:
- Students will define and provide examples of civil rights.
- Students will understand the two types of racial segregation.
- Students will learn the background and evaluate the impact of Plessy and Brown Supreme Court decisions.
- Students will investigate important events in the Civil Rights Movement.
- Students will interpret and analyze several songs about the Civil Rights Movement.
Terms of Use: Used here with the permission of the UVA Center for Politics’ Youth Leadership Initiative. For additional resources, visit their website and register. Any lesson plan or resource found on the website may be used at the discretion of a participating teacher.
Supplemental Resources
US Law and Native American Documents | DocsTeach, The National Archives
Teaching Tolerance - American Civil Rights | The Southern Poverty Law Center
Landmark Cases of the Supreme Court | Street Law Inc. and the Supreme Court Historical Society
Creation of the Bill of Rights | EDSITEment! National Endowment for the Humanities
Readings: Unit 3
You may link to the online version of the textbook from the chart or download a PDF copy of the readings for Unit 3 below:
Terms of Use: These readings from U.S. History.org by The Independence Hall Association are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
ushistory.org eText | Learning Targets |
3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.6, 3.9 |