Higher Education U.S. History Google Apps

Controversy and the Criminal Justice System (Eric Garner Case)

By Sarah Austin

This lesson will have students critically explore a contentious current event issue involving the cases of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. The lesson will invite students to examine the context and controversy that surrounds the two cases, although emphasis will be placed on the Eric Garner case. A thought-provoking Slide Presentation & accompanying handouts will prompt students to analyze a variety of news resources; all of which frame the issue in a particular way, and offer different explanations as to the underlying causal factors in Garner’s death.

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This lesson includes:

  • One 18 Slide Presentation
  • Detailed Lesson Plan
  • Handouts:
  1. Handout #1- Guided Notes
  2. Handout #2- Current Events: America’s Criminal Justice System

Race, Criminal justice system, controversy, racism, Black Lives Matter, Colin Kaepernick

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  • Analyzing The Declaration of Independence & the U.S. Constitution (click here to open in new tab)
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  • Causes and Effect: Protest Movements of the 1960's
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The Ku Klux Klan: Comparing the Past To Today

By Sarah Austin

This highly engaging, primary based, interactive Slide Presentation will have students examine; the underlying roots from which the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) came to exist in America, the organization's primary tactics of using intimidation & fear in fighting against social equality, and why many poor whites were recruited to join the KKK organization. Students will delve deeper by comparing the circumstances and social conditions of two former KKK leaders (one who lived during the era of Jim Crow, and the other of present day).

Class discussion, and critical thinking is promoted throughout the entire lesson.

Materials Include:

  • Slide Presentation & Guided Notes Handout
  • Venn Diagram- 'Comparing White Supremacy of the Past with Today'
  • Primary Source Reading- 'C.P. Ellis Why I Quit the Klan'
  • Teacher Answer Key Included

*All THREE lessons (Era of Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan, & Jim Crow) is available in the BUNDLE for a discounted %.

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