• Begin with the activity titled "Does Treating People Equally Mean
  Treating Them the Same?"
   
• Read the "Background" as a class. Have students identify the arguments for each side and predict the outcome.
   
• For homework, have students read the "Key Excerpts from the Majority Opinion" and answer the accompanying questions.

• Complete all activities for the first day.
   
• Next, complete the activity titled "Classifying Arguments in the Case."
   
• On the second day, read and discuss the Key Excerpts from the Majority Opinion.
   
• Complete the activity "How a Dissent Can Presage a Ruling:
  The Case of Justice Harlan."
  
  

• Complete all activities suggested for the first and second days.
   
• On the third day, have students analyze the media coverage of the decision and the political cartoons.
   
• For homework, have students complete the activity titled "All Deliberate Speed?"
  
  

• Complete all the activities for the first and second days.
   
• On the fourth day, students should complete the Web-based activity "Case Study of Integration - Little Rock." You could discuss the activity the students completed for homework, "All Deliberate Speed" and then complete "If You Were a Supreme Court Justice . . . "
  

Resources

•	About landmarkcases.org
•	Teaching Recommendations Based on Your Time
•	Background Summary and Questions • • • Reading Level • • Reading Level  • Reading Level
•	Diagram of How the Case Moved Through the Court System
•	Biographies Earl Warren Thurgood Marshall
•	Key Excerpts from the Majority Opinion Brown I
•	Key Excerpts from the Majority Opinion Brown II
•	Full Text of the Majority Opinion

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Activities
    The Case

•	Does Treating People Equally Mean Treating Them the Same?
•	Classifying Arguments for Each Side of the Case
•	How a Dissent Can Presage a Ruling: The Case of Justice Harlan
•	Immediate Reaction to the Decision: Comparing Regional Media Coverage
•	Political Cartoon Analysis

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    After the Case

•	All Deliberate Speed?
•	Case Study of Integration -- Little Rock
•	If You Were a Supreme Court Justice. . .
•	Was the Promise of Brown Fulfilled?
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	Additional Resources
•	The Smithsonian's Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education
•	Mix It Up

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