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Novel Activity Project
Topic: Rosa Park Bus Boycott
Standard of Learning, Novel Information, and Objective
Standard of Learning: 2.4 The student will describe how the contributions of selected individuals
changed the lives of Americans, with emphasis on a) Christopher Columbus b) Benjamin
Franklin c) Abraham Lincoln d) George Washington Carver e) Helen Keller f) Thurgood
Marshall g) Rosa Parks; h) Jackie Robinson i) Cesar Chavez; and j) Martin Luther King, Jr.
Novel Information:
So Other People Would be also free: The real story of Rosa Parks for kids. Author:
Tonya Leslie. Year of publication: 2019. Grade level: 2nd grade. Number of pages: 118. I don’t
think this novel shows show biased information. This novel helps the students discover the
power of standing for equality. Rosa stayed seated on a segregated bus to take a stand for racial
equality. This show students to stand up for what’s right. Now back in the time that Rosa was in,
everything was segregated.
Objective: Given a story map about Rosa Parks the students will use the information from the
novel to complete the map with 4/5 boxes correct.
Interdisciplinary Activities
Interdisciplinary Approaches:
The students will be given a story map to follow along while we read the story. The map
has 5 parts to it, character, setting, problem, how the character tried to solve the problem, and
solution. Each part can be worked on while we story is being read. Reading is one subject area
that is linked to this activity. We read the story as a class and the students follow along. Another
subject area would language arts, students will have to learn what some definitions are to be able
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to understand the content in the story. Three content vocabulary words would be segregated,
racial equality, and activist. “Literacy strategies and skills are used as students acquire and
impact social studies learning; specialized social studies content and skills bring application and
purpose to literacy a perfect symbiotic relationship” (Maxim 2022).
Resources
Resources for Activity:
Students will go to the library to research the vocabulary words that I had mention the
previous paragraph. They will also research Rosa Parks background, her early life mostly. The
resources I will give them will be a projected text of the book so the visual learners can follow
along. I will read the story out loud so the students can verbally hear the story, I will also give a
printout of the main facts about Rosa Parks. As for artifacts I will show the students a video of
the museum that has artifacts about Rosa Parks. “
Assessment of Student Learning
Assessment Plan:
Students will create a comic strip as their assessment. This will allow the students to tap
into their inner cartoonist and test their knowledge with comic strips. I will set clear expectations
for length and content beforehand. For feedback, I will let them partner up and check each other
work. They will have a checklist to keep each other accountable. After this I will ask all the
students if they feel good about their comic strip. If all the students feel good them will have 3
students share their work.
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References
[Reference the resource(s) that you used for this assignment, and follow current APA standards.]
Instructions: Fill in the boxes to show how name: Story map. (n.d.). Retrieved September 20,
2022, from https://www.readingrockets.org/pdfs/storymap_complex3.pdfG
TroyUni. (2011, October 6).GA tour of the Rosa Parks Museum. YouTube. Retrieved September
19, 2022, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep2jUJklJ2QG
