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Name was Fannie Lou Hamer
| Subject: | Resistance |
| Curriculum Area: | 4th grade -- lesson can be modified |
| Instructional Objectives: | Students will be able to discuss the life and struggle of Fannie Lou Hamer and identify important dates and events. |
Prerequisite Skills:
1. Students will be able to develop a timeline of the Civil Rights Movement and of Fannie Lou Hamer's life.
2. Students will be able to put events in order.
3. Students will be able to identify pertinent laws and struggles.
4. Students will identify laws relating to the right to vote and discuss significance of voter registration.
5. Students will be able to conduct a mock election.
| Activity: | Writing |
Procedure:
1. List and define these scrambled words from the picture caption below:
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2. Black women were pivotal agents in the civil rights struggle of the 1960s. Ella Baker is credited with being the motivating force behind and inspiration for the Student Non- Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and a staunch supporter of youths engaged in the struggle.
Fannie Lou Hamer, for many years a sharecropper, fearlessly confronted the racist whites of her native Mississippi and the nation, serving as Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1964.
Listen to recording about Fannie Lou Hamer by Sweet Honey in the Rock; discuss lyrics and meaning, and sing.
3. Do dramatic reading of story poem on Fannie Lou Hamer in Shining Legacy.
4. Do timelines: begin with a personal or family timeline. Demonstrate its sequence and cause and effect of events.
5. Write a poem in honor of Fannie Lou Hamer.
6. Write a play about her determination to register to vote.
7. Illustrate highlights of Ms. Hamer's life.
Joan Weisberger