Grade Range: 5-12Resource Type(s): Lessons & Activities, Reference MaterialsDuration: 40 MinutesDate Posted: 1/25/2010
Watch and discuss a 22-minute video of a Museum theater presentation. During the presentation, a fictional composite character from 1960 is conducting a training session for people interested in joining a student sit-in to protest racial segregation. The student speaks about the recent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, and coaches members of the audience in the philosophy and tactics of non-violent direct action.
This teacher guide also includes instructions for an in-classroom simulation, suggested extension activities, and lyrics for a sing-along performance of a freedom song.
Discussions, Multiple activities, Multimedia instruction, Museum education, Role playing, Simulations and games, Teaching guides
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Connie, a fictional young girl, witnesses the student sit-ins at the lunchcounter in Greensboror,...
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