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Oh Freedom Citizen Action Plan

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Citizen Action Lesson Plan

Grade: 5^th grade

Unit Essential Question: Why does racism exist?

Lesson Theme: Become an Informed Voter

Author: Karen Schulte

Objective: Students who have been studying African Americans struggles for equal rights will encourage present day eligible voters to get out and be an informed voter by producing a Public Service Announcement for the local access tv channel. In it, they will encourage people not only to get out and vote but to be an informed voter.

Lesson: This collaborative effort will have 3 groups that will be formed around their purpose (Group 1 - who and when, Group 2 - where and how, and Group 3 - when and why). Each group will have writers, researchers, performers, director, etc. with the teacher doing the final video taping.

Group and whole class collaboration is essential. Each group needs to include at least two outside sources of information citizens could access and work it clearly into their portion of the PSA (website, phone number, address, contact name, etc.). Assessments for the collaboration include a rubric grading each group’s segment as well as one for individual contributions.

Team/Individual Rubric (completed by instructor)

3 pts	2 pts	1 pt
Teams clearly referred to two outside sources in their segment of the PSA	Teams referred to two outside sources but instructions for their use were not clear.	Teams clearly used one outside source of information in their segment.
Team segments lasted between 20 – 30 seconds of filmed time.	Team segments lasted between 10 – 20 seconds.	Teams segments were less than 10 seconds long.
Speaking was clear and viewer could understand message.	Speaking was clear but too fast.	It was hard to understand what was being said.
Props or visual aids were used that helped viewer understand the message.	Props or visual aids were used but did not connect with the message.	No props or visual aids were used.
Segment clearly matched group’s purpose.		Purpose did not match segment or was unclear.
Individual did their part of the assignment and contributed to the group’s overall effort.*		Individual did their part of the assignment but did not assist group’s overall effort.*