Oklahoma Social Studies USH.C.7.2.D
The Standard
- USH.C.7
- Analyze the cause and effects of significant domestic events and policies impacting the lives of American citizens.
- USH.C.7.2
- Examine how the Civil Rights Movement intersected with various other movements for individual rights and liberties.
Describe the goals and effectiveness of the United Farm Workers movement, including the leadership of César Chávez and Dolores Huerta to improve working conditions for migrant laborers.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · USH.C.7.2
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain why farmworkers wanted better pay, safer conditions, and union contracts. They show how César Chávez and Dolores Huerta used strikes, boycotts, and negotiations, then judge what changed.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student connects the Delano grape strike and consumer boycott to the 1970 contracts with grape growers. They describe Chávez's organizing and Huerta's negotiations, and recognize that the contracts did not cover every farmworker.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think Chávez worked alone and overlook Huerta's role. They may confuse a strike, when workers stop working, with a boycott, when customers stop buying. Some assume the grape contracts improved conditions for all migrant workers.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: How did the grape boycott help win a contract? Name one action by Chávez or Huerta and one group of workers the contract did not cover.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs printed Delano strike demands and a summary of the 1970 grape contracts; have them highlight demands the contracts addressed.
Ask: Did the grape boycott help workers get what they wanted? Defend your answer with one detail from a strike timeline.
Play a card match using Chávez, Huerta, strike, boycott, organizing, negotiating, work stoppage, and consumer pressure.
Show a grocery store grape label and ask who picks the fruit and which working conditions a union contract could change.
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