hist.g8.s.cul.capstone_long_civil_rights_multi_movement_storybook
Capstone — student selects ONE civil rights movement from MG-18 (Black + Chicano + AIM + Asian American + LGBTQ+ + women's + disability + decolonial); researches >=4 primary sources via MG-7 TWELVE-Q SOURCE CARD; produces Foxfire 3-copy oral-history-and-research storybook + civic-action letter to one of 14 named institutions; presents to class scored on 5-STAR rubric; completes 5-question self-reflection (Banks Level 4 SOCIAL ACTION)
STUDENT-CHOICE capstone (Banks Level 4 SOCIAL ACTION): each student selects ONE movement from MG-18; researches >=4 primary sources (>=1 movement-leader own-voice + >=1 survivor or grassroots own-voice + >=1 contemporaneous opposition or contextual source + >=1 contemporary scholarship); applies MG-7 TWELVE-Q SOURCE CARD to each; produces Foxfire 3-copy storybook (~16 pages: research narrative + primary-source plates + Q12 PRESENT-CONNECTION + civic-action letter draft) — 3 copies (1 school library + 1 family + 1 named institution); civic-action letter mailed to 1 of 14 named descendant-community institutions: NMAAHC + Yad Vashem International School + USC Shoah Foundation + Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum + Manzanar NHS / Densho + Smithsonian National Museum of the American Latino + Smithsonian APA Center + Stonewall National Monument + Disability Visibility Project + Apartheid Museum + Mahatma Gandhi National Memorial + Nelson Mandela Foundation + Vietnam Center + AIM Grand Governing Council; presents to class (8 min) scored on 5-STAR rubric (PRIMARY SOURCES + OWN-VOICE + MULTI-PERSPECTIVE + PRESENT-CONNECTION + CIVIC ACTION); completes 5-question self-reflection (I-LEARNED + I-CAN + I-STILL-WONDER + WHAT-I-WILL-DO + WHO-I-AM-AS-HISTORIAN); assessment-as-learning per §6.3.4.
- Analyze Civil Rights Movement 1954-1968 as multi-leader Black Freedom Struggle: Brown 1954 + Emmett Till 1955 + Montgomery 1955-56 + Little Rock 1957 + sit-ins + Freedom Rides + March on Washington 1963 + Birmingham + Selma + Voting Rights Act 1965 + MLK assassination — centering Ella Baker + Bayard Rustin + Fannie Lou Hamer + Bob Moses + Diane Nash + Septima Clark per Hall 2005
- Analyze the Long Civil Rights Movement as multi-movement struggle 1965-present: Chicano Movement + American Indian Movement + Asian American Movement + Stonewall LGBTQ+ + Women's Liberation + Disability Rights
- Analyze decolonization 1947-94 from decolonial leader own-voice across continents: India 1947 + Africa 1957-94 + Caribbean + Pacific anti-colonial movements
- Apply MG-7 TWELVE-Question SOURCE CARD extending G8-Fall's NINE questions with NEW Q10 SURVIVOR-OWN-VOICE-CENTERED + Q11 MULTI-PERSPECTIVE-CHECK + Q12 PRESENT-CONNECTION across all 20th-century primary sources
No declared successors.
- Selecting a movement without applying MG-7 12-Q SOURCE CARD to each primary source — Q10 + Q11 + Q12 are required not optional
- Drafting a civic-action letter that is performative not substantive — must include specific request + acknowledge institution's existing work + commit to follow-up
- Treating capstone as fixed-leader hagiography (e.g. selecting Black Freedom but writing only about MLK) — refuses MG-14f LONG-CIVIL-RIGHTS-MULTI-MOVEMENT PROMISE; must center ≥3 leaders including grassroots organizers