Alabama Social Studies SS24.5.3

SS24.5.3 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• SS24.5.3a

  Explain how legislation, individuals, and groups extended educational opportunities in Alabama.

• SS24.5.3b

  Summarize the role of labor unions and reformers in changing laws governing working conditions.

• SS24.5.3c

  Summarize Helen Keller’s life and her contributions to disability rights.

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What Students Need to Do

Students explain how reformers tried to improve schools and working conditions in the United States and Alabama. They identify people, groups, and laws that expanded schooling in Alabama, while recognizing that segregation still limited access. They describe what unions sought to change and how Helen Keller spoke up for people with disabilities.

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What Mastery Looks Like

A student can explain how Alabama's attendance law, Booker T. Washington's work at Tuskegee, and Black communities' work on Rosenwald schools expanded education. They can connect a union demand to a change in work laws. They can name an example of Keller's advocacy as an adult.

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Common Misconceptions

Students may think attendance laws ended unequal schooling for Black children. They may think unions passed laws themselves, rather than pressuring lawmakers. They may know Keller only as a child learning to communicate, not as an adult advocate.

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How to Assess It

Exit ticket: Explain one way a law, person, or group expanded schooling in Alabama, one work law unions sought to change, and one way Keller advocated for people with disabilities.

1. 01

   Sort index cards into law, educator, and community effort: Alabama's attendance law, Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee, and Black communities funding Rosenwald schools.

2. 02

   Read a one-page Helen Keller biography, then write two sentences naming a barrier she faced and one right she worked to expand.

3. 03

   Play a matching game with cards showing child labor, unsafe factories, union demands, and new work laws; explain one problem-to-law match.

4. 04

   Compare your district's attendance rules with Alabama's early compulsory attendance law; ask which barriers to schooling a rule alone cannot fix.

• SS24.5.2

  Describe Progressive Era political reforms in both the United States and Alabama.

• SS24.US1.20b

  Describe the political reforms passed during the Progressive Era.

• SS24.AS.15

  Evaluate the extent to which civil rights reformers in Alabama at the turn of the twentieth century successfully challenged the emergence of the Jim Crow South.

• SS24.5.8a

  Identify the contributions of reformers during the New Deal, including Alabama political and civic leaders.