Sit-In+Reinforcing+Activity

Grade 5 History Regions and People of the Western Hemisphere
 * Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down:**

1. Multiple-tier timelines can be used to show relationships among events and places.


 * Objective:** After reading //Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down,// students will be able to create timelines that show relationships among events and places during the civil rights movements.


 * Procedure**:
 * 1) Teacher will explain and discuss the importance of timelines with students.
 * 2) First, the teacher will show the class multiple examples of timelines and different ways you can use timelines in the classroom.
 * 3) The students will quickly make a timeline showcasing important events of their own lives.
 * 4) Have students read the book //Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down.//
 * 5) They will take notes throughout the book on specific dates and places the author describes.
 * 6) After reading and taking notes, the class will discuss what they have just read.
 * 7) In the back of the book there is a timeline that spans throughout the entire span of the civil rights movement.
 * 8) The class will discuss the timeline in back and how the story’s dates and places correlate with the events on the timeline.
 * 9) After the group discussion the students will make their own timeline based on the civil rights movements.
 * 10) The timelines must include facts from the story, the book timeline, and from the classroom textbook.
 * 11) These timelines should be displayed creatively.

-//Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down// //-//Multiple copies of different timelines -Colored Paper -Markers, Crayons, Colored Pencils
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