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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Subject: | Arts & Humanities,
Language Arts,
Social Sciences,
U.S. History
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Grade: | 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
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Brief Description
Students dramatize the incident that started the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s: Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
Objectives
Students
- define the word boycott,
- learn about Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott,
- create a dramatization of Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
Keywords
Rosa Parks, Montgomery bus boycott, civil rights movement, Martin Luther King
Materials Needed
- teacher-selected and/or student-researched resources about Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott
- paper
- pens or pencils
- student-selected props for the dramatization
Lesson Plan
- Discuss information about Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott from a few of the many sources available in print and online. You may want to start with Time 100: Heroes & Icons -- Rosa Parks. One print source to check is the book Rosa Parks: My Story, by Rosa Parks with Jim Haskins.
- Ask students their reactions to Parks's actions. Ask students how they might have responded to the bus driver.
- Tell students that they are going to create a short play about the historic incident. Have the class work together to write the dialogue and create the props. Give students the necessary time (perhaps several days or longer) to work on the play.
- Have students present the play to other classes in the school.
Assessment
Evaluate students' participation in the activity and in the play.
Lesson Plan Source
Education World
Submitted By
Lois Lewis
National Standards
Language Arts:
NL-ENG.K-12.1
NL-ENG.K-12.2
NL-ENG.K-12.4
NL-ENG.K-12.5
NL-ENG.K-12.6
NL-ENG.K-12.8
NL-ENG.K-12.9
Social Science:
NSS-USH.K-4.3
NSS-USH.5-12.9
Theater:
NA-T.K-4.1
NA-T.K-4.2
NA-T.K-4.3
NA-T.K-4.4
Originally published 01/29/2001
Links last updated 01/17/2006
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