Alabama Social Studies SS24.5.3a
The Standard
- SS24.5.3
- Describe Progressive Era social reforms in both the United States and Alabama.
Explain how legislation, individuals, and groups extended educational opportunities in Alabama.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how an attendance law, Booker T. Washington, and community fundraising expanded schooling in Alabama. They describe how segregation still limited opportunities for Black children.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students explain that the 1915 law required children to attend school. They describe how Washington and Black communities worked with Rosenwald funding to build schools. They can name segregation as a limit on equal access.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think the attendance law paid for new schools, when it required children to attend. They may think Rosenwald funding paid the full cost of Black schools, or that new schools ended segregation.
How to Assess It
- On an exit ticket, ask: What did Alabama's 1915 attendance law do, and how did Black communities help build schools? Name one limit that remained.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs fact cards about the 1915 attendance law, Booker T. Washington, and Black community fundraisers; have them sort the cards by law, person, and group.
Ask students to write: Why might families raise money for a school even after the state required children to attend?
Play a matching game with cards showing the attendance law, Washington, and Rosenwald school fundraisers on one side and their actions on the other.
Have students read their school's attendance policy and compare its purpose with Alabama's 1915 law.
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