Civil Rights America Creative Writing

Life in the Civil Rights South Creative Writing Piece

Due: Wednesday, March 12 (Writing grade)

Task: Integrate the station information about the historical context of the Civil Rights South.  Include four of the six elements of setting in your piece. Highlight or underline exact examples.  Some of the elements may be implied, which the teachers will pick up on.

Perspective:  Assume the identity of an individual living in the time of the Civil Rights in the United States South

Time Frame: Encompass one of the periods: life before integration, during integration, or a flashback of the time period

Options:  Your creative writing piece can be in the style of:

·         Diary entry from the perspective of a child or teen integrating or whose school is being integrated

·         Select a picture of the unequal classrooms or schools and write about going to school there.

·         Write a narrative about a person involved in the Civil Rights movement or integration who supports the change.

·         Write from the perspective of a teacher whose school is being integrated and the concerns or rewards you predict may happen.

·         Write from the perspective of one of the Little Rock Nine.

·         Write a narrative in which a symbol of hope occurs throughout (butterfly, bird, first flower of spring, a tree with its first fall colors, the changing of seasons, sunrise, etc).

·         Write a narrative about being a bystander and the confusion or shame that the person may feel during school integration.

·         Write a narrative about a black and a white child whose friendship is tested when their school is integrated.

·         Write a story about what happens when Elizabeth Eckford sees herself in the newspaper and the faces of the people behind her.

·         Write a newspaper article to the public about what happened at the Little Rock Nine integration

·         Write as Ruby Bridges as she makes a speech to her new classmates about why she is no different than they are.