US History · Week 29 · Postwar America and Civil Rights
Every Vote Counts
Students analyze how the Voting Rights Act and the Twenty Fourth Amendment opened access to the ballot and decide how they will take part in civic life.
- Students will
- Students analyze how the Twenty Fourth Amendment and Voting Rights Act widened access to the ballot, and use the data line and timeline to explain how access changed.
- SEL skill
- Pause to weigh consequences and choose a way to take part in civic life
- What it looks like
- Students use their emotions to think through a civic decision and decide how they will take part in civic life.
- Content focus
- Every Vote Counts
- Format
- Think write pair share
Responsible decision-making
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What you get
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Standards
- 11.10.6: CA History Social Science Content Standard, Grade 11: United States History and Geography: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century (standard 11.10, item 6)
- CA HSS Analysis Skill: CST2 Analyze how change happens at different rates at different times, and how it affects values and beliefs as well as technology and politics. (Chronological and Spatial Thinking)
- C3 Framework (national): D2.Civ.2.9-12 Analyze the role of citizens in the American political system, including how participation has changed over time.
- Literacy in history: RH.11-12.3 Analyze a series of events and determine whether earlier events caused later ones.
Fits these textbook chapters
- American History: Reconstruction to the Present, Module 15: Civil Rights
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 44: The Civil Rights Revolution: "Like a Mighty Stream"
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 48: The Great Society
- History Alive! Pursuing American Ideals, Chapter 57: U.S. Domestic Politics at the Turn of the 21st Century
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