Description:
This engaging and fully resourced KS3 lesson explores how African Americans responded to segregation, racism and violence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Students will:
Define and apply key vocabulary (segregation, Jim Crow, lynching, KKK, Great Migration)
Analyse how racism was enforced through law and violence
Compare life under slavery with life under segregation
Examine how African Americans resisted and improved their situation
Develop structured PEE(L) paragraphs on significance
The lesson includes:
Retrieval starter linking slavery to Civil Rights
Guided reading and comprehension tasks
Vocabulary development and literacy support
Source discussion and image analysis
Structured model answer (I DO / YOU DO)
Significance writing task focused on the 1920s