Virginia SOL VS.11

VS.11 is a Standards of Learning history and social science standard. These are the skills expectations under it.

• VS.11.a

  explaining the social and political events connected to disenfranchisement of African American voters in Virginia in the early 20th century, desegregation, cour...

• VS.11.b

  investigating the political, social, and economic effects of choices made during the Civil Rights Era by Virginians including, but not limited to Maggie Walker,...

01

What Students Need to Do

Students explain how poll taxes, literacy tests, and segregation limited the rights of Black Virginians. They connect protests, lawsuits, court rulings, and state resistance. They examine how individual Virginians changed schools, voting, public life, and economic opportunities.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Students can place major events in order and explain how one event led to another. Given a person or primary source, they can identify the action taken and describe a political, social, or economic result.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may think the Brown ruling caused Virginia schools to integrate immediately. They may confuse Massive Resistance with civil rights protests rather than state efforts to block integration. They may also assume all leaders worked together during the same years.

04

How to Assess It

Give students four cards: poll tax, Barbara Johns's strike, the Brown ruling, and Prince Edward school closures. Have them order the cards and write two cause-and-effect sentences.

1. 01

   Give pairs person, event, and outcome cards to match, then have them connect the matches with yarn on a floor timeline.

2. 02

   Ask students to write: Why did the Brown ruling not bring immediate school integration across Virginia?

3. 03

   Run a cause-and-effect relay where teams match voting barriers, protests, court rulings, state responses, and later changes.

4. 04

   Compare a historical Virginia poll tax receipt with a current voter registration form, then list who could participate under each system.

• VS.7

  The students will apply history and social science skills to understand the key people, events, and issues of the Civil War and Virginia’s role by

• 1.7

  The student will apply history and social science skills to connect geography to historic events of Virginia and the United States by

• 1.4

  The student will apply history and social science skills to understand Virginia’s history by

• VS.4

  The student will apply history and social science skills to understand life in the Virginia colony by