Indiana Social Studies S.8.9
The Standard
Discuss the impact of leaders of different social movements.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how leaders organized people and chose tactics in different movements. They compare what the leaders did, what changed, and who else helped.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can link Martin Luther King Jr.'s role in the Montgomery bus boycott to bus desegregation. They can link Dolores Huerta's grape boycott organizing to farmworker contracts without claiming either leader acted alone.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may credit one leader with a change won by many people. They may mistake a movement's goal for a result it achieved, or assume a famous speech was the leader's only action.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Compare King and Huerta. Name one tactic each used, one change linked to each, and one reason neither acted alone.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Have pairs match six cards: King, Huerta, Montgomery boycott, grape boycott, desegregated buses, and farmworker contracts; ask them to explain each chain.
Ask students to write three sentences explaining how Huerta's grape boycott organizing helped win contracts and why farmworkers' actions mattered too.
Play claim check: read 'King ended segregation alone' and 'Huerta organized a grape boycott'; students show supported or overstated cards and explain.
Use a school board agenda with a proposed policy; students write one question about how a community organizer could affect the outcome.
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