Lesson # 1

Title:History of the Ku Klux Klan

Duration: 1 days

Learning Goals Based on Standards:
The goal of this lesson is to investigate the history of the Ku Klux Klan.
Essential Questions:
1.  Why do people belong to different organizations?
2.  Why is there injustice?
3.  What influences cause people to join a group?
4.  How did the Ku Klux Klan form?
5.  Why do we need to know about the KKK?
Students will Know:
Essential Vocabulary
-  prejudice
-  primary resources
-  secondary resources
-  writing process
-  lynching / Students will be able to
·  analyze primary and secondary sources.
·  determine the reliability, validity, and authenticity of primary and secondary source documents.
·  understand how a primary source, can be more effective than a secondary source.
·  take notes and maintain an interactive notebook.
·  analyze cause and effect.
·  read information from two separate sources on the same topic and synthesize the information.
·  write RAFTS using evidence found in historical documents.
·  present information orally. / Students will Do:
·  Think –Pair –Share
·  Define the vocabulary words and match them with definitions
·  Take notes on the history of the KKK
·  Start a timeline
·  Exit slips
Assessment: How will students demonstrate the desired understandings? (Performance tasks, quizzes, tests, journals, homework, observations, etc.) How will understanding be judged?
Quizzes
Journals
observations
Instructional Activities/Sequence:
1.  Hook – Have students create a web of the different types of activities or groups they are involved in. Then create a graph of how many students participate in each activity or group.
2.  Introduce the vocabulary –vocabulary matching
3.  Introduce the Ku Klux Klan by watching a short video of the History of the Ku Klux Klan
4.  Take notes
5.  Start to create a timeline
Resources:
Ku Klux Klan History
http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/kkk/history.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=4&item=kkk (accessed on July 9, 2012)
Ku Klux Klan
http://www.history.com/topics/ku-klux-klan (accessed on July 9, 2012)

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