Name: ________________________________________________ Unit 7 Civil Rights Movement

Civil Rights Performance Task

Directions: Read the explanation below of the performance task. You are to create your exhibit
based on the criteria and rubric on this page. This project will be presented on Friday, June 6
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You are working with a team of curators at a local museum. The role of a curator is to create,
oversee and take care of any given collection at a museum. They also decide what objects
should be displayed and how. The word curator comes from the Latin word curatus, which
means "care."
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Students will work in groups to create an exhibit that tells the story of the civil rights movement of
the 1960s. The exhibit will include primary sources such as photographs, songs, letters, and
political cartoons that tell the story. Each group will focus on one of the following subtopics:
1 . Murder of Emmett Till
2 . Martin Luther King vs. Malcolm X
Similarities and differences
3 . Brown vs. the Board of Education and the integration of Little Rock Central High School in
Little Rock, Arkansas .
4 . Lunch-counter sit-ins
5. Civil Rights Act of 1964
6 . Voting rights actions
Freedom Rides
registration drive
murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson
The murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner
Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Your exhibit must include the following criteria:
At least six primary source documents (such as photographs, songs, letters, and political
cartoons) that best tells the story of your topic
Placards(curators notes) that discuss the main idea and importance behind each
document
A creative display
Presentation to a small group of students, in which you teach them about the importance
of the event or person in the Civil Rights movement

Rubric:
Outcome Not Yet Meets Standards Exceeds Standards
Collaborate
Work effectively with
others to achieve
common goals.


___ Student partnered with other
students to plan and execute
project. Students, without
teacher redirection, efficiently
worked together.


___ Student remained
engaged in the planning and
execution of the project.

___ Student communicated
with fellow group members to
keep them engaged and
accountable.
Create
Produce or develop a
product for expression.

__ Some thought was put
into making the exhibit interesting,
but some of the artifacts
presented made it harder to
understand the key ideas of the
topic.

___A lot of thought was put
into making the exhibit
interesting as shown by
creative artifacts and curators
notes.