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- Interview with Mary McLeod Bethune (.pdf)
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Young historians conduct a close reading of the text of an interview with Mary McLeod Bethune, the daughter of former slaves who taught herself to read, grew up to establish schools for other Black women, and went on to become an advisor to President Franklin Roosevelt. The interview reveals how important schools were to the early civil rights movement.
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Instructional Ideas
- Provide readers with the "Community Inquiry" questions to use as a guide as they read
Classroom Considerations
- The third lesson of four in the "Beyond Rosa Parks: Powerful Voices for Civil Rights and Social Justice" series
- Struggling readers will need additional support reading the interview transcript
- Requires index cards for the vocabulary activity
Pros
- Includes suggestions for lesson extensions
- A "Word Work" activity shows readers another strategy for decoding unfamiliar words in a text