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DocuSign Envelope ID: C9EE1A01- 1583 -4088- 9007- 6B72A1449ABC <br />Arts in Education Grant Application — Fall 2014 -15 <br />Activities'. <br />This production is designed to <br />provide a launch pad for discussion <br />with your students. Ask your <br />students to openly discuss how <br />moments of the play made them feel <br />and what they think of the events <br />and people they learned about_ <br />Break your students into small <br />groups have them research various <br />key moments of the Civil Rights <br />Struggle and present them to the <br />class. <br />Create a wag museum Have your <br />students study people from this time <br />period_ Set -up a time for them to <br />stand in a hall or in the gym dressed <br />ae these people. As other students <br />or classes approach them they come <br />to life and recite facts about the <br />individual they are portraying. <br />Separate your classroom up based <br />upon a human trait like hair color or <br />eye color Let that special group go to <br />lunch first or e4oy a treat while the <br />other group doeen't. Discuss the <br />feelings each part during that <br />activity_ <br />Have your students imagine if they <br />would be brave enough to step into <br />McDougle Elementary School PTA <br />the role of someone fighting for Civil <br />Rights_ Are there issues going on in <br />today's world that they could see <br />themselves stepping into? <br />Look at a map and explore things like <br />the routes of the Freedom Riders. The <br />Marches from Selma to Montgomery <br />and more_ <br />What are the Civil Rights issues <br />facing America today? <br />Songs became a key element in the <br />struggle for Civil Rights. Explore the <br />messages of some of these songs and <br />discuss why they were effective in <br />bringing people into the cause_ <br />Consider anthems like `We Shall <br />Overcome' and `Ain't going to Let <br />Nobody Turn Me Around_' <br />SPOTLIGHT: HEROES FROM THE MOVEME <br />Medgar Evers (1925 -1963) This Civil Rights Activist <br />worked in Mississippi and was involved in efforts to <br />overturn segregation at the University of Mississippi. A <br />veteran of WW It, Mr. Evers became a Feld secretary <br />for the NAACP. On June 7.1963. he was gunned down <br />in his driveway after returning home from a Civil Rights <br />meedw. <br />The Little Rock Nine. In a key moment of the Civil <br />Rights Movement nine students became the first black <br />students to enrol at Central High School in Litde Rock, <br />Arkansas. in 1957. these young people encountered a <br />mass of protestors cursing and threatening them for <br />their simple walk to a schooL Eventualy Federal troops <br />made it passible For them to attend schooL <br />Page 18 of 23 <br />