
Exploring America in the 1960s
Our Voices Will Be Heard (Grades 6-8)
- 134 pages
- English
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Exploring America in the 1960s
Our Voices Will Be Heard (Grades 6-8)
About this book
Exploring America in the 1960s: Our Voices Will Be Heard is an interdisciplinary humanities unit that looks at literature, art, and music of the 1960s to provide an understanding of how those living through the decade experienced and felt about the many social changes taking place around them. Through the lens of "identity," it explores why these changes occurred and lends an ear to the voices of the groups that clamored for them. Cultural icons like the Kennedys, the Beatles, Andy Warhol, and the Beach Boys are examined alongside larger issues such as the Civil Rights and women's rights movements and the Vietnam War. The unit uses field-tested instructional strategies for language arts and social studies from The College of William and Mary, as well as new strategies, and it includes graphic organizers and other learning tools. It can be used to complement a social studies or language arts curriculum or as standalone material in a gifted program.
Grades 6-8
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgement
- Unit Overview
- Implementation Guide
- Lesson 1: The Kennedy Years
- Lesson 2: The March on Washington and the Civil Rights Movement
- Lesson 3: The Motown Sound
- Lesson 4: Pop Art
- Lesson 5: The 1960s Environmental Movement
- Lesson 6: Women in the 1960s
- Lesson 7: The Counterculture
- Lesson 8: Protesting the War in Vietnam
- Lesson 9: The Civil Rights Movement Changes
- Lesson 10: The 1960s Come to an End
- References
- Appendix: Unit Glossary
- About the Authors
- Common Core State Standards Alignment