Name: Peters, Kathy
E-mail: mom1953@yahoo.com
Topic: A comparison of Dunbar and Central High in Little Rock
Arkansas
Grade: 3-5
Time: 3
Ark. Hist. Framework: PPC.1.3 PAG.1.1
PAG.1.2 SSPS.1.1 SSPS.1.3 SSPS.1.6
Objective: The student will identify the educational wants and needs of
black and white high school students.
The student will identify 3 ways that Central and Dunbar were alike and 3
ways that Central and Dunbar were different in the years preceding
1957.
Set: Define the key terms. Discuss the educational wants and needs of third
grade students, then progress to the wants and needs of high school students.
Review a Venn Diagram. Read (selected passages) DAYS OF COURAGE: THE LITTLE
ROCK STORY aloud to the class.
Materials: Venn Diagrams, pencil, notebook paper
Key Terms: Dunbar High School, Central High School, equality, integration,
segregagion, school board, NAACP, desegregation
Key Facts: Black and white students in Little Rock did not begin going to
school together until 1957.
The school board in Little Rock decided to build new high schools for LR
students in the 1920's, one for white, one for black.
Brown vs. Board of Education was a case heard in the Supreme Court that
called for the end of segregation in schools.
Activities: We will list the educational wants and needs of high school students.
Using a Venn diagram, students will then separate these into same and different
for black and white students. The results will be discussed. Then
we will talk about segregation as it was prior to 1957 and how the laws have
changed.
We will take a field trip to the Central High Museum and take the tour, stopping
at the chart on the wall of the comparison of Dunbar and Central during the
time they were both high schools. The students will use a Venn diagram
to document 3 or more differences in the schools and 3 or more ways the schools
were alike.
Closure: After taking the tour of the museum and listening to the speaker,
the class will share some of the comparisons that they made of the schools and
their feelings about them.
Assessment: The student will write a 3 paragraph essay comparing Dunbar and
Central. The last paragraph will be his/her opinion of the segregation of
the races at Central and Dunbar based on facts learned during the field
trip. A rubric will be used to assess the students performance on the
essay.
Resources: DAYS OF COURAGE: THE LITTLE ROCK STORY, by Richard Kelso
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