1. Oct6th Learning Target: I can understand about early advocates for African Americans in the late 1800s. Literacy Target: to analyze author’s claims, assumptions and premises.
Opener: What do you think life was like for African Americans in the South AFTER the Reconstruction Era ended in 1877? (Remember background knowledge)

2. Review Time Civil War was between 1861-1865
Reconstruction Era
Many legal advance for African Americans (13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments)
HOWEVER North pulls troops out of the South and white- supremacist Democrats take over
RESULT:
African Americans become sharecroppers
Laws put into place to prevent African Americans from voting
KKK had support and terrorized people voting Republican
Lynching became wide spread
Jim Crow Laws: SEGREGATION- upheld by Plessy vs Ferguson
Two Leaders EMERGE- Booker T Washington and W.E.B. Dubois

3. Watch and then summarize your thinking

4. Historical Reading Skills- Keep this sheet ALL YEAR LONG!
Sourcing
Author/Source
Contextualization
Looking at the historical time period, what should we know about this document
Corroboration
What do other documents show us about our document we are using
What documents are reliable/unreliable
Close Reading
Author’s claims, position, evidence- this is found in the text (text-based detail)

5. Follow along as we read and answer questions
Booker T Washington Document- we will do this one as a class
W.E.B. Dubois YOU will do this on your own tomorrow in class.
Closure for 10/6- How do you feel about Washington as an advocate for African American rights? EXPLAIN YOUR ANSWER.