Rainhill HigH SCHOOL
media arts college
Year 9
History
Half-term 2 /
This half term I will learn:
  • How the Civil Rights Movement began
  • How individuals like Emmett Till and Rosa Parks contributed to the Civil Rights Movement
  • How different leaders protested.
LP1 for year 9 is week commencing 28th November – pupils will need to revise all of the content on Jack the Ripper, the assassination of JFK and the Civil Rights Movement up to the end of the 1950s.
Half-termly assessments will be:
  • How useful is source A to an historian studying attitudes towards black Americans in the early part of the twentieth century? Explain your answer using source A and your contextual knowledge (8 marks)
  • Explain the significance of the actions of Rosa Parks on the Civil Rights Movement (8 marks)
  • Which story had the biggest impact on the Civil Rights Movement:
Emmett Till
Rosa Parks? (12 marks)
  • How do the interpretations differ about how black Americans should protest in the Civil Rights Movement? (4 marks)
  • Why do the interpretations differ about how black Americans should protest in the Civil Rights Movement (4 marks)
/ Key Terms I will learn this half term are:
Segregation
Integration
Ku Klux Klan
Discrimination
Civil Rights
Boycott
Sit-ins
Equality
Inequality
Learning Outcomes / Homework
Week 1 & 2 – I will be able to:
Answer the following questions:
  • How were black Americans treated at the start of the twentieth century?
  • What progress was made by 1945?
/ Fact file on a significant black individual in History
Revise for LP1
Week 3 & 4 – I will be able to:
Answer the following questions:
  • How did Emmett Till help to bring progress?
  • What impact did Rosa Parks have on the Civil Rights Movement?
/ Explain the significance of the actions of Rosa Parks on the Civil Rights Movement (8 marks)
Week 5 & 6 – I will be able to:
Answer the following questions:
  • Who made the biggest contribution to the Civil Rights Movement – Emmett Till or Rosa Parks?
/
  • Which story had the biggest impact on the Civil Rights Movement:
Emmett Till
Rosa Parks? (12 marks)
Week 7 & 8 - I will be able to:
Answer the following question:
  • How did 9 students change education in America?
  • What impact did the Little Rock 9 have on the Civil Rights Movement?
/ Takeaway homework set by class teacher