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
Internet sources: http://www.wmich.edu/politics/mlk    (Timeline of the Civil Rights Movement)
http://www.arkdemgaz.com/prev/central/    (Little Rock 1957: Pages From History - The Central High Crisis)

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