HW for Monday, 6/4

Read this packet:


In order to go on the trip, you must be here on time, and you must be able to tell me 3 interesting things you learned reading this packet!

HW for Thursday, 5/31

If you're missing any assignments, you may choose to do tonight's hw to replace one of them. If you are not missing any assignments, you may do tonight's hw for extra credit OR to replace your lowest quiz grade!

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Listen to the interview with John Lewis (this was aired yesterday -- special thanks to Tommy's mom for letting us know about it!). You may also read the transcript, if you'd like to follow along.

Write a 200 word response to the interview. What are your thoughts/feelings about what Congressman Lewis says about our current society? What do you think he means when he says "maybe the larger society should take a lesson from the civil rights movement"? What was it like, hearing him talk about some of the times/places/events we've studied, like the Edmund Pettus Bridge and the Voting Rights Act?

HW for Friday, 5/25

Write 10 quiz questions (with answers) based on today's tour.  You can click on the link below and read sections 1-8 to come up with questions.

http://www.culturaltourismdc.org/sites/default/files/pdf/DTbooklet_English_final.pdf

HW for Thursday, 5/24

Here's a link to the page where you can go to download the audio tour for tomorrow's trip: http://www.audisseyguides.com/washingtondc/download.html
Please download all three tours.

Also, read the "Mountaintop" speech and answer the 4 questions at the end of the speech.

HW for Wednesday, 5/23

Make up work!

HW for Tuesday, 5/22

Complete the Quiz Review for tomorrow's quiz.  You will be able to use those notes -- nothing else -- on the quiz.

Link for today's class discussion

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HW for Monday, 5/21

Read "Where Now?" packet and answer the attached questions in complete sentences, on a separate sheet of paper.

HW for Friday, 5/18

Read "Malcolm's Hajj" and answer the attached questions in at least 2 complete sentences on a separate sheet of paper.

Charles Moore

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/moore/aboutCharlesMoore.shtml

HW for Wednesday, 5/16

Read "Freedom and a New Name" and answer questions.

HW for Tuesday, 5/15

Read "Nation of Islam" packet, answer questions in complete sentences on a separate sheet of paper.

HW for Friday, 5/11

Make up work.  Let's all be current by Monday!

HW for Thursday, 5/10

Complete the Quiz Review sheet I handed out in class today.  Remember, you will be able to use the sheet/your answers on tomorrow's quiz!

HW for Wednesday, 5/9

Keeping in mind what we talked about today in class (as to what inspired King to write this letter), finish reading Letter from a Birmingham Jail and answer these questions.

HW for Tuesday, 5/8

Please watch this video and read the information on this page, then write 5 quiz questions, with answers, about Medgar Evers.
http://www.biography.com/people/medgar-evers-9542324

Please then go here and watch the first 5 videos about Fanny Lou Hamer, and write 5 more quiz questions, with answers, based on them.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0F34D2D4F7CC172C&feature=plcp

We'll do a quiz tomorrow based on your questions!

Classwork for Tuesday, May 8

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?

HW for Thursday, 5/3

Please read these directions very carefully!

View this slideshow:
http://americanart.si.edu/exhibitions/online/aaa/

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 when we're at the museum 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're at the museum tomorrow, you may also be called upon to remind us of some of the important facts relating to your artist (the one about whom you did the Power Point).

HW for Tuesday, 5/1

Read "The Court's Brown Decision" and answer the questions on a separate sheet of paper.  As always, your responses must be at least 2 complete sentences.

HW for Monday, 4/30

Read the packet "Without Fear" and answer the questions on a separate sheet of paper.

HW for Friday, 4/27

Read Emmett Till packet (pgs. 40-56) and answer questions.  Write a minimum of 2 complete sentences for each answer.

HW for Tuesday, 4/24

Read the packet "To Be a Slave" and answer the questions on a separate sheet of paper.

Daily Warm Up for Tuesday, 4/24

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

HW for Monday, 4/23

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.