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Lesson Plans - 8th Grade

Melba Pattillo and Ruby Bridges: Two Pioneers of School Integration

Students put themselves in the shoes of the students who integrated Little Rock High School in 1957-58. Note: The primary resources in this activity provide powerful and poignant descriptions of what those students faced.

Civil Rights Movement

Discrimination and the Civil Rights Era

Build a Black History Database/Timeline

In this lesson, students use a word processing or spreadsheet program to organize a database/timeline of important events related to famous people in African American history.

365 Days of African-American History

Students create a daily calendar of events in African American history.

The Black History Rap

In this lesson, students put the lives of historic Black figures into poetic form.