HW for Wednesday, 1/30

Finish your MLK Research worksheet.

HW for Tuesday, 1/29

"Nation of Islam" packet.

HW for Monday, 1/28

Make up work!

HW for Friday, 1/25

"The Son" packet.

HW for Thursday, 1/24

Quiz 2 Review sheet.

HW for Tuesday, 1/22

Make up work!
If you did not finish your narrative, that is your priority tonight.

Speech!

You will be assigned to a group and a speech.
Step 1: Read your speech aloud in your group!  Go around and bump to each other.
Step 2: Discuss the questions below, then answer them on a separate sheet of paper.  You only have to turn in one per group, unless I get the impression that someone is checked out, in which case, each group member will have to turn in an answer sheet!
Step 3: Decide, as a group, who will summarize your speech for the rest of the class.  As a group, choose 3 key quotes from the speech that elucidate (vocab word!) the most important points of the speech.

Kennedy: http://millercenter.org/president/speeches/detail/3375
Lewis: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eyesontheprize/sources/ps_washington.html
King: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/17/i-have-a-dream-speech-text_n_809993.html

Questions on the reading:

1) What are the first three words that come to mind when you think about what you just read?  List your personal choices, then discuss them with your group and come up with a group answer, as well.

2) We've been talking a lot about the tension between the states and the federal government.  Thinking about that, how does your speech describe the role played by the Federal Government in the Civil Rights Movement?

3) What is the role of the Federal Government in ensuring equal rights for African Americans, according to your speech?

4) What does your speaker think is the key to changing the second-class status of African Americans in American life?

5) Based upon your prior knowledge of the status of African-Americans in the United States at this time, and your speech, which speech or speaker gives the best explanation of the U.S. Government's relationship to the Civil Rights Movement?

Daily Warm Up for Tuesday, 1/22

Please read this article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/president-obama-takes-second-oath-of-office-at-inauguration/2013/01/21/062d9d54-63d4-11e2-85f5-a8a9228e55e7_story.html?hpid=z1

Once you've done that, make sure you've printed your narrative, then you may read other articles on the inauguration.  Which civil rights leaders were there?

HW for Thursday, 1/17

"Jails" packet.

Daily Warm Up for 1/16

Please read these directions very carefully!

Look at this art on this site:
http://africanamericanart.si.edu/art

Pick one piece of art that you particularly like.  Read about it.  Study it.  Take notes, if necessary, and be prepared to PRESENT YOUR PIECE OF ART to the class tomorrow!

Here's the catch -- in order to make sure that there's no overlap in presentations, please sign into your blogspot/google account and in the comments section to this post, write which piece of art you have claimed.  When you're ready to post your choice, make sure no one else has chosen it first.  If someone has chosen the piece you wanted to present, you'll have to pick another one.

When we present these tomorrow, you must be prepared to answer questions about your piece of art and how it relates to the civil rights movement.

HW for Tuesday, 1/15

"Bus Boycott" packet.

HW for Monday, 1/14

"The Court's Brown Decision" packet.

HW for Thursday, 1/10

Complete the "Without Fear" packet.

HW for Tuesday, 1/8

Go to the webquest we started in class today.

1. Click on "Process."
2. Finish defining the vocabulary words -- remember, do not copy and paste the definitions.
3. Then, click on the "Timeline" and "Jim Crow Laws" links -- read/review those sites, then come up with 10 quiz questions based on what you learned.  Your questions may be short answer, multiple choice, or fill in the blank.  Please include your answers!  If your questions are good enough, I'll use it on the next quiz and you'll get extra credit!

Daily Warm Up for Tuesday, 1/8

We're going to try this webquest:
https://sites.google.com/site/beccivilrightswebquest/home
We'll get started together, then you'll work on this independently over the next week.

HW for Monday, 1/7

"Separate but Unequal" packet and questions.

HW for Friday, 1/4/13

Read the packet "Liberation and After" (pgs. 28-41) and answer the questions in at least 2 complete sentences each.

Daily Warm Up for Friday, 1/4/13

Start reading "Freedom  Rides" -- a set of books is on the shelf by the English vocabulary lists.

HW for Thursday, 1/3/13

Read the packet "To Be a Slave" and answer the attached questions on a separate sheet of paper.  You answers may be typed or handwritten.  Each answer must be at least 2 complete sentences.

Daily Warm Up for Thursday, 1/3/13

Explore this website:
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/reconstruction/index.html
Pop quiz questions may come from material on this site!

HW for Wednesday, 1/2

Read the packet "To Make a Slave" and answer the attached questions on a separate sheet of paper.  You answers may be typed or handwritten.  Each answer must be at least 2 complete sentences.