INTRODUCTION

You are a black child living during 1952 period of school segregation. There is a school within two blocks from where you live and it is for white students. The school twenty or more blocks away from your house is for blacks and it is not equal to the white school.. You would like to go to the school near your home. What possible problems would you face in going to this school in the 1950’s.

TASK

You will be broken up into group of twos.

1. Researcher will do a CompuLegal research of the Brown vs. Board of Education. Go to the websites to explain segregation.

2. Recorder to record information, putting it into an essay or composition.

3. Read the case of Brown vs. Board of Education using the website as well as other sources to enable you to understand and form a conclusion.

You will also review the Tenth and Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

You will create a report agreeing or disagreeing with the case. The opinions of the students will be supported with facts.

You will also role play the case.

PROCESS

1. Give an opinion after looking at the Plessy case visual.

2. Look at the Brown vs. Board of Education case. Give an opinion of that case.

3. What is the difference between the two cases?

4. Using the visual below, do a CompuLegal of the Plessy case.

5. Using the visual below, do a CompuLegal of the Brown vs. Board of Education.

6. Give a one page report on each of the cases.

7. Give an oral presentation in front of the class in groups of twos.

RESOURCES

http://www.nps.gov/brvb/brown2.htm

Brown vs. Bd. of Ed. Visual

Plessy Visual

EVALUATIONS

1. Write one paragraph the grade will be a C.

2. Write two paragraphs the grade will be a B.

3. Write three paragraphs the grade will be a B+.

4. Write four paragraphs the grade will be an A.

CONCLUSIONS

Students will have a better understanding what segregation means.

STANDARDS

NYC ELA

E1d Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of public documents.

E2a Produce a report of information.

E3c Prepare and deliver an individual presentation.

E4a Demonstrate an understanding of the rules of the English language in written and oral work.

NYS Social Studies Standard 5 Civics, Citizenship, and Government

Standards 1,2,3,4.