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Introduction to Selected Documents from the Roxcy Bolton Collection
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| Grades |
7, 8, and 9 |
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Social Studies |
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| Sunshine State Standards |
SS.C.2.3.6 |
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Government and the Citizen
[Civics and Government]
Standard 2:
The student understands the role of the citizen in American democracy.
6. understands the importance of participation in community service,
civic improvement and political activities. |
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Overview
Your students may know that restaurants at one time denied service
to customers based on race, but do they know that in 1969 many department
stores had separate lunch areas that did not allow women? In this lesson,
students will imagine being in 1969, walking into a restaurant and being
denied service. They will then try to discover why they have been denied
service.
Objectives
1. Students will listen to a guided imagery exercise that takes them
back to 1969.
2. Students will brainstorm ideas to try to discover why they would
not be allowed to sit at an empty table at a Burdines lunch counter in
1969.
3. Students will read letters about the "men only" lunch areas.
4. Students will use the information they have learned to answer
the question of why their group was not allowed to sit at the empty table
in the guided imagery exercise.
5. Students will discuss the question of whether they know of
any other time when there were similiar rules that excluded a group of
people.
6. Students will discuss whether they think anything like that
could happen today to any group of people.
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Materials and Preparation
1. Guided imagery script.
2. Letters regarding the "men only" lunch areas (one copy for each
group of five students).
3. Essay about Roxcy Bolton by reporter
Molly Turner (one copy for each group of five students).
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1. Break students into groups of five. Create groups of
mixed gender and race where possible.
2. Tell to get ready to imagine themselves back in time, in the
year 1969, in Florida.
3. Read the guided imagery.
4. Have students brainstorm ideas within their groups to try
to discover why they would not be allowed to sit at an empty table at a
Burdines lunch counter in 1969.
5. Call on each of the groups to give their ideas to the class.
6. Have each group read the letters about the "men only" lunch areas
and the essay by Molly Turner.
7. Have students discuss within their groups the question of
why their group was not allowed to sit at the empty table in the guided
imagery exercise.
8. Call on each of the groups to give their ideas to the class.
9. Have students discuss within their groups whether they know
of any other time when there were similiar rules that excluded a group
of people.
10. Call on each of the groups to give their ideas to the class.
11. Have students discuss within their groups whether they think
anything like that could happen to any group of people today .
12. Call on each of the groups to give their ideas to the class. |
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