Teach your students about Thurgood Marshall while strengthening essential reading, research, and informational writing skills! This engaging biography writing unit explores the life and legacy of the influential civil rights lawyer who successfully challenged racial segregation and became the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Perfect for Black History Month, Civil Rights Movement, U.S. History, biography studies, or informational writing lessons in Grades 5–6.

This NO PREP biography writing resource is organized into four structured lessons that guide students through the entire writing process. Students begin by cutting out and sorting facts about Thurgood Marshall into four key stages of his life before using the information to construct well-organized biography paragraphs. They then select important facts for an introduction, respond to thought-provoking conclusion prompts, edit their work, and produce a polished final biography.

This resource includes:

• Thurgood Marshall fact-sorting activity
• Four guided biography paragraph sections
• Early life, education, and legal career
• Civil rights and segregation
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Supreme Court career and lasting legacy
• Introduction planning and writing activity
• Conclusion planning with critical-thinking questions
• Biography final-copy templates
• Thurgood Marshall crossword and answer key
• Thurgood Marshall wordsearch and answer key

Students will learn how Marshall used the legal system to challenge discrimination, his important role in Brown v. Board of Education, and his historic appointment to the Supreme Court while developing paragraph organization, sequencing, fact selection, editing, and biography writing skills.

A complete print-and-teach Black History and Civil Rights biography writing project that's ideal for combining social studies and literacy while helping fifth and sixth grade students become more confident informational writers.

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