Third Grade Social Studies

Looking at Unit 5

Rights and Freedoms for Everybody

Marlo Mong

January 13, 2009

How do I know what concepts to teach?• Use your curriculum map!

– Unit One on every map lists the concepts used for the rest of the year

– Every piece of content for the rest of the year is listed under a relevant concept

• These are suggestions – make them work for your class!

• Keep up with it all by using your concept wall.– Because you have been organizing the

standards using the concept wall since unit 1, students should be starting to make some connections between concepts and units.

Teaching Historical Figures• Start with character traits

– Introduce vocabulary– Create a chart that describes traits– Give examples of character traits in people important to students’

lives– Refer to chart every time you study a historical figure

• Integrate Social Studies and ELA– Teach non-fiction reading strategies with biographies– Emphasize the reason historical figure is in the standard– Think about character forming events and impact on society– Discuss differences between what is significant and what is “cool”

Eleanor Roosevelt: What was her role in the United Nations and changing human rights?

• Activist: Why was it important to help the underprivileged? Think about how her actions help or harm others.

• Uncle Teddy (Pres. Theodore Roosevelt) instilled family value of social responsibility• Worked in lower income areas of NYC to help immigrants adapt to new life in America• Unusual because she did this on a regular basis…most rich people did this occasionally

• Changed the role of First Lady• Reported to the president about working and living conditions as she traveled through the US• Wanted to help those who were disadvantaged

• Member of the US delegation to the United Nations• Chairman of the Human Rights Commission• Helped write the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• Inalienable rights of the human family: freedom, justice, and peace• Everyone is entitled to these rights regardless of who they are or where

they live

Framework Support

Thurgood Marshall: How did he contribute to the civil rights movement?•Supreme Court Justice: Why did he choose this path? •Think about how his beliefs helped him make his decisions both in and out of court.•Maryland: Again, what is the significance of this southern state?

– Growing up, father instilled in him the love of law• Would parallel beliefs of Dean of Howard University Law School that the constitution applies to all

people– Denied acceptance in University of Maryland Law School because of race

• First court case: successfully sued U of M Law School to admit African-American students

•Used law and the justice system to end segregation– Work as a lawyer for the NAACP helped him to become a leader in civil rights

• Brown vs. Board of Education: Landmark case legally ending “separate but equal”– 1st African-American Supreme Court Justice

• Legal work with desegregation led to new protections under law for all Americans: women, children, homeless, prisoners

Framework Support

Lyndon B. Johnson: How did Great Society and changes in voting rights impact people’s rights?

• President: How did his actions impact society? Think about the positive/negative effects of his actions.

• Texas: Worked his way through teacher college and taught at a predominantly Mexican-American school where he felt the burden of poverty on his students

• The Great Society: Speech delivered to students in Michigan• 3 issues: rebuilding urban cities; protecting and caring for America’s resources; improving

education• Became a series of initiative that included: aid to education; Medicare; urban

renewal, beautification, conservation, and development of depressed regions; a wide-scale fight against poverty; control and prevention of crime and delinquency; and removal of obstacles to the right to vote

• the result of this will provide all American’s greater opportunities and equality

• Voting Rights Act of 1965 eliminated all prerequisite requirements to vote • Constitutionally, all citizens were entitled to vote but individual cities created rules to prevent

African-Americans to vote such as literacy requirements or poll taxes.

Framework Support

Resources• http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/erbio.html

– Short biography of Eleanor Roosevelt from the FDR Presidential Library• http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/eleanor.html

– Article from Time Magazine about the most influential people of the last century. Very frank and honest account of her life both personally and as the First Lady.

• http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/abouterp/overview.cfm– The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project-This website has collected many of her correspondences, speeches, articles, and other primary source

documents. Also links are available to teach about the First Lady and human rights. The lessons are geared to upper grades, but could provide useful background for teachers.

• http://www.nps.gov/elro/– The only National Historic Site dedicated to a First Lady. This takes you to Val-Kill, her residence after the passing of President Roosevelt.

• http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/marshallthrgd– America’s Story from the America’s Library a website created by the Library of Congress. Learn about the life of Thurgood Marshall written

with students in mind.• http://www.oyez.org/justices/thurgood_marshall/

– The Oyez Project is dedicated to archiving and documenting all the “goings-on” of the Supreme Court. This link takes you to the official biography of Thurgood Marshall as well as his Supreme Court portrait. If you visit the Oyez site, there is a link for a virtual tour of the Supreme Court building.

• http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/marshall/– Using the timeline, American Radio Works offers biographical and historical information about the work of Thurgood Marshall.

• http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/lbjforkids/main.htm– Lyndon B. Johnson for Kids! A link from the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum.

• http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/– The Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum website.

• http://www.nps.gov/lyjo/planyourvisit/reconstructedbirthplace.htm– Commissioned by President Johnson, this is the recreation of his family home in Texas.

Resources for Integration

Great Society: The Story of Lyndon Baines

Johnson By: Nancy A. Colbert

Morgan Reynolds, Incorporated

Thurgood MarshallFamous Americans

SeriesBy: Helen Frost

Coughlan Publishing

Thurgood Marshall: Civil Rights Champion

By: Judy MonroeCapstone Press Inc

A Picture Book of Thurgood Marshall & A Picture Book of Eleanor Roosevelt

By: David A AdlerHoliday House, Inc.

EleanorBy: Barbara Cooney

Penguin Group (USA)

Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the World

Time for Kids BiographiesBy: with Dina El Nabli

Harpercollins Childrens Books

The Eleanor Roosevelt You Never Knew

By: James Lincoln CollierChildren's Press(CT)

A Letter to Mrs. RooseveltBy: C. Coco De Young

Topeka Bindery