Civil Rights Movement Menu Project
Directions: You will have class time today and you will have homework time to complete your menu on
the Civil Rights. This menu is designed to get you thinking about basic concepts from this unit. You
must complete all three sections of this menu. You must have a cover page for your menu as well.
All work must be your own!!
Appetizer- Pick one of the choices from below.
Write analogies for each of your vocabulary terms.
Make a foldable with your vocabulary words and definitions.
Draw out each of your vocabulary terms. (fold your paper in fourths and draw four on each
side)
Main Course- Choose one of the following
Make a graphic organizer listing at least three efforts made to end segregation. Each part must
have a description and a symbol to go with it.
Write an e-mail to a friend in the North describing at least three specific events going on in the
South leading up to the end of segregation. Make sure that you describe in detail what is going
on.
Make a colored drawing of three efforts made to end segregation in the South. Please label
your drawings so that they will be understood by others.
Dessert- Choose one of the following
Write an “I Am” poem or your own original poem or song on Freedom Riders, Martin Luther
King, Jr., the NAACP or the SNCCC. If you write your own original poem or song you must have
five verses.
Make a test on Freedom Riders, Martin Luther King, Jr., the NAACP or the SNCC . The test must
have at least twenty questions.
Make a wanted poster for the Freedom Riders, Martin Luther King, Jr., the NAACP or the SNCC .
This poster must have a picture and a description underneath the picture of why they are
“wanted”.
Category 13-15 9-12 5-8 Below 5 Total
Appetizer Activity is Activity is Activity is Activity is not
complete, complete, mostly complete,
directions directions complete, directions
were followed, were followed, directions were not
information is information is were mostly followed,
accurate, accurate, followed, information is
makes mostly makes information is not accurate,
complete complete mostly does not make
sense, sense, great accurate, may complete
professional quality, neat not all make sense, legible.
quality. and legible. complete
Pictures are in sense, good
color. quality, neat
and legible.
Main Course Activity is Activity is Activity is Activity is not
complete, complete, mostly complete,
directions directions complete, directions
were followed, were followed, directions were not
contains three contains three were mostly followed,
efforts to end efforts to end followed, information is
segregation segregation information is not accurate,
and they are and they are mostly does not make
completely completely accurate, good complete
accurate, accurate, quality, neat sense, legible.
professional information and legible.
quality. mostly makes
Pictures are in complete
color. sense, great
quality, neat
and legible.
Dessert Activity is Activity is Activity is Activity is not
complete, complete, mostly complete,
directions directions complete, directions
were followed, were followed, directions were not
information is information is were mostly followed,
accurate, accurate, followed, information is
makes mostly makes information is not accurate,
complete complete mostly does not make
sense, sense, great accurate, may complete
professional , quality, neat not all make sense, legible.
neat and and legible. complete
legible. sense, good
Pictures are in quality, neat
color. and legible.
Cover page: worth 5 points ( creative, professional quality) Include: name ,class, title
Total score _____________________/50