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Social Studies Black History Unit Overview

Black History Unit Plan Overview

This Black History Unit covers topics in African American History from Early African

Kingdoms to African Americans in the United States today. The purpose of this unit is to help

students understand the cultural and intellectual contributions Africans made in shaping what we

know today as the United States of America.

Students will explore the workings of early West African Kingdoms. Students will gain insight

into the brutally harsh Trans Atlantic slave trade as well as the legacy left to American society as

this trade developed into a deeply held racial prejudice in North America. Students will explore

the efforts taken to break the ties that held blacks in slavery in the United States, and consider the

effects and results of these efforts then and today.

Topics presented in this unit include:

o Early Africans and Slaveryo Africans in Early North Americao Slavery, The Underground Railroad, and Civil Rightso African Americans: Reconstruction and Beyondo 19th and 20th Century Lynching of African Americanso Civil Rights (Movement, Leaders, Protests, Military, Separate but NOT Equal,

Affirmative Action, Court Cases)

Besides Homework and other assignments students will set-up and use a blog; participate in a

class debate; and complete an oral history unit assignment - recording an oral history about a

personal experience connected with the role of African Americans in the United States.

Students will also complete a Unit Test to assess their understanding of the topics presented inthe Unit.

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Social Studies Black History - Assessment Breakdown

Assessment Weight Type Total Mark Type Total

IWA Journaling DP 1Homework 10

IWA Journaling DP 6Homework 10

IWA Persuasive Essay DP 8Homework 10

IWA Journaling DP 12Homework 10 Homework 40

SGA Interviewing DP 2Class Work 8

IWA Journaling DP 3Class Work 8

IWA Summaries DP 4Class Work 8

IWA News Article DP 7Class Work 8

Worksheet Reconstruction

DP 8 Class Work 8

IWA Commentary DP 10Class Work 8

IWA Journaling DP 11 Class Work 8

IWA Short Answers DP 13Class Work 8

IWA Summary Document

DP 14 Class Work 8 Class Work 72

Class Debate DP 17 or DP 18Class Debate 40 Class Debate 40

Oral History Unit

Assignment DP 19

Unit Assignment 10 Unit Assignment 10

Unit Test DP 20 Test 115 Test 115

Total Assessment277

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Writing Rubric Writing Assignments in the Unit

Therubricprovidesascoringdescriptionforeachscorepoint.

10PointsThewritingisfocusedonthetopic,hasalogicalorganizedpattern(includingabeginning,middle,

conclusion,andtransitionaldevices),andhasampledevelopmentofthesupportingideas.Thepaper

demonstratesasenseofcompletenessorwholeness.Thewritingdemonstratesamaturecommandoflanguage

includingprecisioninwordchoice.Subject/verbagreementandverbandnounformsaregenerallycorrect.With

fewexceptions,thesentencesarecomplete,exceptwhenfragmentsareusedpurposefully.Varioussentence

structuresareused.

8PointsThewritingisfocusedonthetopicwithadequatedevelopmentofthesupportingideas.Thereisan

organizationalpattern,althoughafewlapsesmayoccur.Thepaperdemonstratesasenseofcompletenessor

wholeness.Wordchoiceisadequatebutmaylackprecision.Mostsentencesarecomplete,althoughafew

fragmentsmayoccur.Theremaybeoccasionalerrorsinsubject/verbagreementandinstandardformsofverbs

andnouns,butnotenoughtoimpedecommunication.Theconventionsofpunctuation,capitalization,andspelling

aregenerallyfollowed.Varioussentencestructuredareused.

6PointsThewritingisgenerallyfocusedonthetopic,althoughitmaycontainsomeextraneousorlooselyrelatedinformation.Anorganizationalpatternisevident,althoughlapsesmayoccur.Thepaperdemonstratesasenseof

completenessorwholeness.Insomeareasoftheresponse,thesupportingideasmaycontainspecificsanddetails,

whileinotherareas,thesupportingideasmaynotbedeveloped.Wordchoiceisgenerallyadequate.Knowledgeof

theconventionsofpunctuationandcapitalizationisdemonstrated,andcommonlyusedwordsareusuallyspelled

correctly.Therehasbeenanattempttouseavarietyofsentencestructures,althoughmostaresimple

constructions.

4PointsThewritingisgenerallyfocusedonthetopic,althoughitmaycontainsomeextraneousorlooselyrelated

information.Althoughanorganizationpatternhasbeenattemptedandsometransitionaldeviceshavebeenused,

lapsesmayoccur.Thepapermaylackasenseofcompletenessorwholeness.Someofthesupportingideasmay

notbedevelopedwithspecificsanddetails.Wordchoiceisadequatebutlimited,predictable,andoccasionally

vague.Knowledgeoftheconventionsofpunctuationandcapitalizationisdemonstrated,andcommonlyused

wordsareusuallyspelledcorrectly.Therehasbeenanattempttouseavarietyofsentencestructures,although

mostaresimpleconstructions.

2PointsThewritingmaybeslightlyrelatedtothetopicormayofferlittlerelevantinformationandfewsupporting

ideasorexamples.Thewritingthatisrelevanttothetopicexhibitslittleevidenceofanorganizationalpatternor

useoftransitionaldevises.Developmentfthesupportingideasmaybeinadequateorillogical.Wordchoicemay

belimitedorimmature.Frequenterrorsmayoccursinbasicpunctuationandcapitalization,andcommonlyused

wordsmaybefrequentlymisspelled.Thesentencestructuremaybelimitedtosimpleconstructions.

1PointThewritingmayonlyminimallyaddressthetopicbecausethereislittle,ifany,developmentofsupporting

ideas,andunrelatedinformationmaybeincluded.Thewritingthatisrelevanttothetopicdoesnotexhibitand

organizationalpattern;few,ifany,transitionaldevicesareusedtosignalmovementinthetext.Supportingideas

maybesparse,andtheyareusuallyprovidedthroughlist,clichs,andlimitedorimmaturewordchoice.Frequent

errorsinspelling,capitalization,punctuation,andsentencesstructuremayimpedecommunication.Thesentence

structuremaybelimitedtosimpleconstructions.

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NOPoints,because

Theresponseisnotrelatedtowhatthepromptrequestedthestudenttodo; Theresponseissimplyarewordingoftheprompt; Theresponseisacopyofapublishedwork; Thestudentrefusedtowrite; Theresponseiswritteninaforeignlanguage; Theresponseisillegible; Theresponseisincomprehensible(wordsarearrangedinsuchawaythatnomeaningisconveyed); Theresponsecontainsaninsufficientamountofwritingtodetermineifthestudentwasattemptingto

addresstheprompt;or

Thewritingisblank.(adaptedfromhttp://fcat.fldoe.org)