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Especially for Educators: General
Activities
Please visit our resource library for lists of books or website links to assist your students with the following activities.
| South Carolina African-American History
Bowl |
| Objective |
Students will answer questions about the lives
and contributions of honorees featured in the current South
Carolina African-American History Calendar. |
| Procedures |
- Develop questions
about the honorees.
- Divide the
class into two teams.
- Ask each team
questions.
- Present an
award/reward to the winning team.
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| Civil Rights Essay and Debate |
| Objective |
Students will assess whether all Americans enjoy
their full civil rights.
Procedures |
| Procedures |
- Assign the class to brainstorm the term “civil
rights.”
- Assign students to write an essay entitled “Do All
Americans Enjoy Their Full Civil Rights?” supporting the positions
taken in the papers.
- Divide the class into three groups: “Yes” responses,
“No” responses, and “Undecided” responses,
based on the positions the students took in their papers.
- Assign students to debate the issue of whether or not all
Americans enjoy their full civil rights.
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| Broadcasting and The Interview Process |
| Objective |
Students will conduct an interview and write stories
based upon those interviews. |
| Procedures |
- Introduce the students to the interviewing process.
- Invite a local radio or television personality to the class
to discuss broadcasting.
- Assign students to develop questions related to various
school topics, or related to the lives of the people featured in
the Calendar.
- Assign students to interview each other, community leaders,
or family members.
- Assign students to use the information from the interviews
to write stories concentrating on the five W’s: Who, What,
When, Where and Why.
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| Charting the Course |
| Objective |
Develop a chart to illustrate and compare aspects
of the lives of Calendar honorees. |
| Procedures |
- Establish categories of information to be illustrated
on a chart. These might include the obstacles that people overcame
to achieve success, the training and skills they possess, the careers
they held or hold, and their contributions.
- Assign students to use their charts to identify similarities
and differences in the experiences of several honorees.
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| Meeting of the Minds |
| Objective |
Students will explain why they are inspired by,
or interested in, the life of a particular honoree. |
| Procedures |
- Assign each student to select at least one honoree
whom he or she would like to meet and familiarize themselves with
that honoree’s background. Ask students to explain to the
class how and why they are inspired by, or interested in, the person
they selected.
- Provide each student with their individual honoree’s
calendar page. Assign them to write descriptive captions for each
honoree photograph. The captions should explain how or why the honorees
are considered inspirational or interesting.
- Assign students to develop and videotape a role-play scenario
in which they convene a meeting of the Calendar’s honorees.
Students should identify a reason for convening the meeting, i.e.,
to have the participants discuss solutions for problems facing young
people today.
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| Career Awareness |
| Objective |
Research the careers of the honorees.
Procedures |
| Procedures |
- Assign students to develop a list of the honorees’
careers.
- Assign students to research the careers they select from
the honorees’ career list and obtain information describing
the qualifications, training, duties, salary range and potential
market of each career selected.
- Identify local people employed in the careers researched
by the students.
- Invite them to participate in career or shadowing day activities.
(Shadowing is an activity through which students spend time in the
workplace to learn the duties and routines associated with a particular
career.)
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| Hall of Fame |
| Objective |
Students will utilitze information from this year’s
Calendar and the website to develop bulletin boards, assembly
programs, debates, songs, stories, video or other projects. |
| Procedures |
- Assign students to skim the Calendar or search
the website to develop a list of research topics to provide the
basis for programs and projects.
- Write their suggestions on the chalkboard for discussion
purposes.
- For example, assign students to research the contributions
of local African-Americans to honor them in a class-created calendar.
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Special thanks to the State Department of Education and SCETV for compiling and sharing lesson ideas and broad-based activities related to South Carolina African-American History.
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