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7th Grade Plus Week Guide: Station One

Summarization

Group A- Civil Rights

Events: Something's Happening Here

"D-Day", the day the children took to the streets of Birmingham in a non-violent march to protest the city's Jim Crow laws.

The Mighty Times: The Children's March. Dir. Robert Houston. Perf. Gwen Webb, Carolyn McKinstry. The Southern Poverty Law Center, 2004. DVD.

Your Assignment for Both

You are to pick a book from your group bucket and read it.  After reading it, you are to write a summary of the book.  You are not retelling the story.  After you write your summary, you are to record it using one of the digital voice recorders.  

Mandatory Extra Credit:  You are to fill out the Book Report graphic organizer.

Virtual Students and Books

Virtual Students can access books through the SORA app in Clever.  You can search for either "Civil Rights" or "Holocaust" in the search bar.

Or you can search by title for one of the following books:

Separate is Never Equal

The Book Itch

The Civil Rights Movement

Malala Yousafzai

What do You do with a Voice like That?

Searching for Sarah Rector

Harriet Tubman

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The First Step

Group B- Human Rights

This Oscar-winning documentary presents Gerda Weissmann Klein’s account of surviving the Holocaust as a child.

One Survivor Remembers was produced in 1995 by HBO and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and directed by Kary Antholis.