Individual Activity: Pre-Reading

Students skim the book or look at the glossary to make a list of words they do not know. Students use the internet to research the meaning of the word and the ASL sign for that word.  

Individual Activity: Vocabulary

Word search

Paired Digital Activity: Vocabulary Flipgrid

Teachers:

• If you don't have a free Flipgrid account, create one here.
• Create a new topic called Children's Crusade Vocabulary. Post the link for your students to access.
• Divide the number of vocabulary words and assign to students. 
• Have students video each other signing the word and its meaning.
• Have students upload to the Flipgrid. 

Small-Group Activity: Reading 

In groups or pairs, students will prepare a presentation on an assigned chapter of the book that they will teach to classmates. 

Book:  The Children's Crusade of 1963 Boosts Civil Rights by Heather Adamson

Digital version available free through GetEpic.com free membership or paid through Amazon.

Guiding questions:

1. How can young adults and children positively affect their communities?

2. How were African Americans impacted by segregation, racism, and violence during the 1950s-1960s? 

3. How were children able to help with the Civil Rights Movement?

Whole Group Activity: Presentations

Students present in order of the chapters to their classmates.  

Presentation Rubric