Students will write an essay that uses evidence from primary sources and their own background knowledge to make an argument and answer an historical question:
Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. were responsible for the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Do you agree with this explanation of the Boycott’s success? Why or why not? Use and cite evidence from the documents to support your explanation of the boycott’s success.
Students will need to read and analyze a set of primary sources to create a thesis-driven essay. They will also locate and choose an additional primary source to use in their essay. This will be part of the scaffolding and instructional activities they will participate in before writing their final argumentative essay.
