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Week 4 of 5

What changed, and why? Causes and consequences

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Session 1 · TRACE: Causes & Consequences

From lunch counters to new laws

  1. 10 minRecap: Greensboro, 1 February 1960. Within weeks, students were holding sit-ins in dozens of cities. Why did it spread so fast?
  2. 20 minCause chain: in groups, link Birmingham 1963 (more than a thousand young people marching, and police using fire hoses and dogs against them on television) to the Civil Rights Act of 2 July 1964. Then link Selma 1965 to the Voting Rights Act of 6 August 1965.
  3. 15 minConsequences: sort cards into short-term and long-term, intended and unintended (for example, cafés open to all, Black voter registration rising in the South, white resistance, new laws still being argued about today).
  4. 5 minExit card: was the law the cause of change, or the result of it?

Session 2 · TRACE: Causes & Consequences

Apology and revival in Aotearoa

  1. 10 minWhat made the Dawn Raids happen? Look at the 1970s oil shocks, job losses and blame. How can hard times lead people to target a group?
  2. 20 minTwo consequence timelines: 1972 petition → Māori Language Day → Māori Language Week (1975) → te reo an official language (1987). Dawn Raids 1974–76 → decades of hurt → a petition led by young Pacific people → the apology on 1 August 2021.
  3. 15 minRead short extracts from the 2021 apology speech. What does an apology change? What can it not change? Discuss in a talking circle.
  4. 5 minStart your strategy scorecard: list every strategy you have met so far.

Getting started

Use a cause-and-consequence chain template: problem → action → reaction → result → years later.

Stretch

Investigate what happened to the Voting Rights Act in 2013 (Shelby County v Holder). Do rights, once won, stay won?

Checkpoint

Each student can explain two causes of the Civil Rights Act or the 2021 apology and one long-term consequence.

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