Unit Plan
Ruby Bridges: Connecting Lives
This unit, designed to promote the study of racial integration, begins with learning about the true story of Ruby Bridges.
Grades
6–8
Duration
10 CLASS PERIODS
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Objectives
Students will:
- Engage in critical discussions
- Discover picture books for presenting ideas
- Learn how literature can break barriers and build bridges
- Respond to shared texts in group discussions
- Practice critical-thinking skills
- Learn and apply the comprehension strategy of making connections
- Make connections and react to various texts using a double-entry journal
- Research suspension bridges
- Demonstrate knowledge of abstract concepts of geometric shapes and measurement
- Design a suspension bridge
- Construct a suspension bridge and describe the process
- Create a presentation
During Instruction
Culminating Activity
Students will become amateur architects by designing, constructing, and presenting a suspension bridge. Students will invite parents to the presentations and the test of strength of their suspension bridges.
Supporting Books
Connecting with Ruby Bridges
Strategic reading with the use of a double-entry journal to express thoughts and become more involved with material.
GRADES
3–5
DURATION
4 CLASS PERIODS
GRADES
6–8
DURATION
6 CLASS PERIODS
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