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 * Lesson Title: Civil Rights, Rosa Parks**

After reading, //If a Bus Could Talk,// you could reinforce the idea that it’s the responsibility of each individual to help make their community a better place by first going over the steps in which Rosa Parks took in fighting for her civil rights. Then give students a school rule or policy that they disagree with and have them come up with their own ways to solve this issue.

__Procedure:__ 1. Students will get into small groups and each group will receive a handout with a school rule on it provided by the teacher. 2. Students are to come up with three ways in which they would go about having this rule changed by determining what their arguments are and what authorities they would have to persuade in order to have the policy revoked.

Example: Policy: //Students must sit in their assigned seating arrangements in the cafeteria during lunch.// //Other Ohio Academic Content Standards: Government//