“Cynthia Levinson has brought the real struggles, frustrations, and fears of the civil rights movement into my classroom!” Christa Armantrout, Talented and Gifted Specialist, Sommer Elementary, Round Rock (Texas) Independent School District
“Teacher friendly and student friendly!“ Natasha Flowers, Adolescent Literacy Specialist, University of Alabama at Birmingham
WHY TEACH We’ve Got a Job?
Read what Christa Armantrout, Talented and Gifted Specialist at Sommer Elementary School in Round Rock, Texas, has to say about that! Natalie Lorenzi’s Biblio Links blog has ideas, too.
TEACHER RESOURCES
Teacher guides and materials for We’ve Got a Job abound. Additional audio, video, and text materials are in development. Meanwhile, check out:
- The official We’ve Got a Job TEACHER’S GUIDE FOR UPPER-ELEMENTARY THROUGH MIDDLE-SCHOOL STUDENTS, by Natalie Dias Lorenzi. (The official We’ve Got a Job TEACHER’S GUIDE FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS will be coming soon from Peachtree Publishers.)
- LESSON PLANS for 4th through 8th graders
- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS for middle- and high-schoolers
- PRIMARY-SOURCE DOCUMENTS
- IDEAS FOR RELUCTANT READERS. (See one new reader’s response to We’ve Got a Job.)
- INTERVIEWS with me, including an IRA podcast created for their Teacher to Teacher blog, on how I researched and why I wrote and how you can teach We’ve Got a Job.
- Be sure to check the STUDENT PAGE as well for videos of the marchers.
- To help your students become engaged citizens themselves, I encourage you to read No Citizen Left Behind (Harvard University Press, April 2012) by Meira Levinson. (Why, yes, she is my daughter!)
Other resource information is available at:
- Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
- Birmingham Public Library
- Eyes on the Prize
- Highlander Research and Education Center
- International Civil Rights Center & Museum
- National Civil Rights Museum
- Smithsonian Folkways
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
- The King Center
- Zinn Education Project
Feel free to send me your lesson plans and ideas to review and post. I’ll be delighted to credit you!
