In this unit students will explore how change occurs within societies, how the philosophy of nonviolence can create change, how human nature reacts to change, and how rhetoric can create change within societies.
Priority Standards
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.6: Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.9: Analyze seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance including how they address related themes and concepts.
- SS.H.3.9-12: Evaluate the methods utilized by people and institutions to promote change.
- SS.H.7.9-12: Identify the role of individuals, groups, and institutions in people’s struggle for safety, freedom, equality and justice.
- SS.H.8.9-12: Analyze key historical events and contributions of individuals through a variety of perspectives, including those of historically underrepresented groups.
We are learning to... - Understand the context and goal of the Civil Rights Movement.
- Evaluate the strategies used to promote change during the Civil Rights movement, considering how each one contributed to change.
- Analyze rhetorical techniques in historically significant speeches, explaining how they impact the meaning of a text and advance the author’s point of view and purpose.
- Understand the impact that rhetoric has on change.
- Understand the impact that nonviolent protest has on change.
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