Civil Rights Movement Graphic Novel Assignment
Due Dates:
Timeline/Character Planner: May 29
Story Planner: June 1/2
Final Project Due: June 7th
Assignment
In groups of 2 or 3, you will create a graphic novelette (a short comic book, not a comic strip) that tells the story of a character who participates in and has his or her life changed by an important event in the history of the Civil Rights Movement in the US.
You can either use Comic Life 3 (Click here to download) or you can use pen and paper, but must show effort and attempt at proper design (no stick figures).
Also check out - 10 Best Websites to Create Free Cartoons from Your Photos
4-5 pages long.
Historically Accurate
Depict the major events of the story
Well-Organized (Follow the Plot Pyramid)
Show effort and creativity
Topics:
Freedom Riders
Brown v. Board of Education - Topeka, Kansas
Rosa Parks/Montgomery Bus Boycott
Lunch counter sit-ins
Integration of Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas
Selma to Montgomery Marches
Mississippi Freedom Summer Project
March on Washington - 1963
Story Planner
Timeline/Character Planner: May 29
Story Planner: June 1/2
Final Project Due: June 7th
Assignment
In groups of 2 or 3, you will create a graphic novelette (a short comic book, not a comic strip) that tells the story of a character who participates in and has his or her life changed by an important event in the history of the Civil Rights Movement in the US.
You can either use Comic Life 3 (Click here to download) or you can use pen and paper, but must show effort and attempt at proper design (no stick figures).
Also check out - 10 Best Websites to Create Free Cartoons from Your Photos
4-5 pages long.
Historically Accurate
Depict the major events of the story
Well-Organized (Follow the Plot Pyramid)
Show effort and creativity
Topics:
Freedom Riders
Brown v. Board of Education - Topeka, Kansas
Rosa Parks/Montgomery Bus Boycott
Lunch counter sit-ins
Integration of Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas
Selma to Montgomery Marches
Mississippi Freedom Summer Project
March on Washington - 1963
Story Planner
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Resources
- The Freedom Rides
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/freedomriders/
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-rides
http://www.core-online.org/History/freedom%20rides.htm
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-freedom-riders-then-and-now-45351758/
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/16/Zwerg.freedom.rides/
http://www.npr.org/2006/01/12/5149667/get-on-the-bus-the-freedom-riders-of-1961
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/freedom-rides-1961
- Brown v. Board of Education - Topeka, Kansas
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_brown.html
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/brown-v-board-of-education-of-topeka
http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/brown50/
https://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/brownvsboardofeducationoftopeka/preview.weml
- Rosa Parks/Montgomery Bus Boycott
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/rosa-parks
http://teacher.scholastic.com/rosa/
http://www.grandtimes.com/rosa.html
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/montgomery-bus-boycott
http://www.ushistory.org/us/54b.asp
http://www.montgomeryboycott.com/
http://www.thekingcenter.org/bus-boycott-sparks-movement
http://www.core-online.org/History/montgomery%20boycott.htm
- Greensboro Lunch counter sit-ins
http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/6-legacy/freedom-struggle-2.html
http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/299/entry/
https://www.sitinmovement.org/history/greensboro-chronology.asp
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/the-greensboro-sit-in
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/courage-at-the-greensboro-lunch-counter-4507661/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18615556
http://www.sitins.com/story.shtml
- Integration of Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/central-high-school-integration
http://crdl.usg.edu/events/little_rock_integration/?Welcome
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_little_rock_school_desegregation_1957/
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=718
http://www.arkansas.com/uniquely-arkansas/central-high/
http://time.com/3874341/little-rock-nine-1957-photos/
http://www.nps.gov/chsc/learn/historyculture/timeline.htm
http://www.blackpast.org/aah/little-rock-crisis-1957
- Selma to Montgomery Marches/Bloody Sunday
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/selma-montgomery-march
http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/al4.htm
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/modern/jb_modern_selma_1.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wallace/peopleevents/pande08.html
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/03/05/black-history-bloody-sunday-timeline/24463923/
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2015/03/us/echoes-of-selma/
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/15/us/1965-selma-to-montgomery-march-fast-facts/
- Mississippi Freedom Summer Project
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/freedom-summer
http://www.core-online.org/History/freedom_summer.htm
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Content.aspx?dsNav=N:4294963828-4294963805&dsRecordDetails=R:CS3707
http://digital.lib.miamioh.edu/cdm/search/collection/fstxt
http://freedom50.org/
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_freedom_summer_1964/
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/08/05/337777120/before-freedom-summer-a-wave-of-violence-largely-forgotten
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/20/us/freedom-summer-anniversary-documentary/
- March on Washington - 1963
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/march-on-washington
http://www.core-online.org/History/washington_march.htm
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/oral-history-march-washington-180953863/?no-ist
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/100-amazing-facts/who-designed-the-march-on-washington/
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/march40th/
http://americanhistory.si.edu/changing-america-emancipation-proclamation-1863-and-march-washington-1963/1963/march-washington
http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/05/us/march-on-washington-fast-facts/