2007 Nominee: Goin' Someplace Special

A young girl takes her first trip alone to the public library in a segregated Nashville in the 1950s.

• Write about the first time you went someplace alone or did something alone.
• Discuss phrases such as "for whites only", "colored section", Jim Crow laws
• What does "don't study on quittin'"mean?
• What is your someplace special?
• Share the end note. This is the author's story of growing up in the 1950s.
• Research segregation, Civil Rights, Martin Luther King Jr.

• Freedom Summer by Deborah Wiles
• Fishing Day by Andrea Pinkney
• The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson
• Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard

• Jim Crow Laws
• Wealth of civil rights sites and teaching ideas
• Scholastic's civil rights lesson plan page
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      2007 Nominee Resources