Learning Pathway: Black Lives Matter
Building Democracy For All is designed so that teachers and students can follow different learning pathways as they explore the material in the book. Rather than proceeding sequentially through the standards, the learning pathways invite a thematic approach. Other learning pathways include: Student Rights, Influential Women, Election 2020, and Current Events.
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Topic 1: The Philosophical Foundations of the United States Political System
Topic 2: The Development of United States Government
- Standard 2.3: UNCOVER: Thomas Jefferson’s Draft Constitution & Thurgood Marshall’s Bicentennial Speech
- Standard 2.3: ENGAGE: Did the Three-Fifths Compromise Make the Constitution a Pro-Slavey Document?:
- Standard 2.5: UNCOVER: W.E.B. Du Bois, the Niagara Movement, and the History of NAACP
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Topic 3: Institutions of United States Government
- Standard 3.1: UNCOVER: Shirley Chisholm, African American Politician and Presidential Candidate
- Standard 3.5: UNCOVER: The Black Panther Party
Topic 4: The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizens
- Standard 4.4: UNCOVER: The 14th Amendment
- Standard 4.5: UNCOVER: Secret Ballots, Poll Taxes, Literacy Tests, and Voter Restriction Laws
- Standard 4.7: UNCOVER: Benjamin Banneker and George Washington Carver
- Standard 4.8: UNCOVER: Ruby Bridges and Youth Activism
- Standard 4.10: INVESTIGATE: Movements for Civil Rights
- Standard 4.11: INVESTIGATE: Joseph Cinque, John Quincy Adams, and the Amistad Case
- Standard 4.11: UNCOVER: Claudette Colvin, the Browder v. Gayle case and the Struggle to Desegrgate Public Transportation
- Standard 4.12: INVESTIGATE: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Civil Disobedience
- Standard 4.13: INVESTIGATE: A. Philip Randolph and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
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Topic 5: The Constitution, Amendments, and Supreme Court Decisions
- Standard 5.3: INVESTIGATE: The Missouri Compromise, the Dred Scott Case, and the 54th Volunteer Regiment During the Civil War
- Standard 5.3: UNCOVER: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
- Standard 5.4: INVESTIGATE: The 1964 Civil Rights Law and Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Standard 5.6: ENGAGE: Kneeling and Flag Protests
Topic 6: The Structure of Massachusetts State and Local Government
- Standard 6.2: UNCOVER: Elizabeth Freeman (Mum Bett) and The Abolition of Slavery in Massachusetts
- Standard 6.2: ENGAGE: Should the Government Pay Slavery Reparations for Black Americans?
Topic 7: Freedom of the Press andNews/Media Literacy