Class Agenda 4/30

1.  Bellringer:  Segregation is illegal, right?  Watch...
2.  View Civil Rights Highlights Clips (pg. 29).

• Clip 1
• Clip 2
• Clip 3
• Clip 4 & 5

3.  Based on the footage you saw in the clips...Why do you think TV was so important in the successes of the Civil Rights movement?  How was this similar to what we discussed about the TV and the Vietnam War?  How does Social Media play a similar role today?

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Class Agenda 4/29

1.  Bellringer:  Identify the problem in the clip.  How did the kids attempt to solve the problem?  Did it work?  Connect to Martin Luther King, Jr...and define boycott and civil disobedience.
2.  Class Activity:  pg. 21.  View Clip.
3.  Why was Jackie Robinson important to the Civil Rights Era?

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Class Agenda 4/26

1.  Bellringer:  View Clip.  Review importance of Brown v. Board of Education.
2.  "Black and White Together" (pg. 13-19).  Do pg. 20 questions 1-3 at bottom.
3.  Central High clip.  What problem still remained after Brown v. Board?

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Class Agenda 4/25

1.  Bellringer:  Read pg. 5.  What is the "strange fruit?"  How does it relate to what we learned about Emmett Till?  View Clip...Jim Crow South
2.  Roots of Segregation (pg. 6)
3.  Brown v. Board of Education (pg. 11-12).  Brain-pop.  View Clip

HW - pg. 11-12

Class Agenda 4/24

1.  Bellringer:  In 3 words or less...describe your reaction to watching "The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till."
2.  Answer the question:   Why was Emmett Till so important to the Civil Rights Era? 
3.  Design a tombstone to honor  Emmett Till.  Include an epitaph (definition - a concise phrase or statement written in memory of a person who has died).  Your epitaph MUST be 30 words or less...4 lines max...AND MUST relate to the question in #2 above.  Bonus for additional poem, haiku, or cinquain.

HW - finish your tombstone

Class Agenda 4/23

1.  Bellringer:  Essential Question:  Why was Emmett Till so important to the Civil Rights Era?
2.  Complete "The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till"

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Class Agenda 4/22: Civil Rights Movement Unit

1.  Bellringer:  What rights are we guaranteed by our Constitution?  Bridge discussion to the Civil Rights Era and segregation.  Rights were NOT guaranteed to our African-American citizens...

2.  Civil Rights Case Study:  Emmett Till.  Why was Emmett Till so important to the Civil Rights Era? 

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Class Agenda 4/19

1.  Bellringer:  Last chance review....
2.  QUIZ:  Cold War
3.  Latest developments in Boston Marathon Bombing.

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Class Agenda 4/18

ELA TESTING DAY:  We will be operating on a 2 hour delay schedule, so our class periods will be shortened. 

1.  Bellringer:  Review 3a-3c for Quiz tomorrow.
2.  Finish Vietnam (powerpoint)...pg. 42
3.  The Cold War Goes Global (pg. 61...powerpoint)

HW - Quiz Friday

Class Agenda 4/17

ELA TESTING DAY:  We will be operating on a 2 hour delay schedule, so our class periods will be shortened. 

1.  Bellringer:  What is the difference between gorilla and guerilla?
2.  Vietnam (powerpoint)...pg. 42

HW - Quiz Friday

Class Agenda 4/15-4/16

1.  Bellringer:  Do Vietnam War Statistics (pg. 51)
2.  Vietnam Stations (in-class research project)
3.  Closure:  Create a generalization summarizing your impressions of the Vietnam War.  Contrast Vietnam with World War II.

HW - QUIZ Friday (Cold War Part 1-2)

Class Agenda 4/12

1.  Bellringer:  Review....Draw a simple picture of the domino theory.
2.  Group Activity - "The Fall of Saigon" (pgs. 53-58)
3.  Brain-pop:  Vietnam War

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Class Agenda 4/11

1.  Bellringer:  Imagine you are Michael Rosenberg (age 10).  Write a letter to your father and mother while they are in prison.  What would you ask them?  What would you tell them about your life since they have been gone?  Base your response on your reading from yesterday.
2.  Review of the Rosenberg Trial (pg. 50)

• Did the American government murder an innocent person(s) due to Cold War hysteria?  Can you create an arguement that Ethel DID deserve the death penalty?  Did NOT deserve it?  

3.  Documentary clips Heir to an Execution/NBC interview with Ivy Meerpol... time permitting.

HW - none

Class Agenda 4/10

1.  Bellringer:  "The Dot Game" - a Cold War simulation.
2.  View Clip:  What was McCarthyism?
3.  Notes:  pg. 43-44

HW - pgs. 45-50

Class Agenda 4/9

1.  Bellringer:  Review 3a-3c
2.  QUIZ:  Cold War Part I
3.  American Culture:  The 1950s

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Class Agenda 4/8

1.  Bellringer:  How are your interests/hobbies/music/likes/dislikes different from your parents or guardians?  Create a "T" chart to contrast.  Introduce concept of generation gap

2.  1950s Culture Story (pgs. 34-39).  Drawing pictures will NOT be a requirement (see packet).

3.  1950s Clip (Interstate Highway, growth of suburbs, new technology)

HW - Cold War (part I) Quiz MONDAY.  Review "Part I" of your packet... & vocab (pgs. 3a-3c)...excluding #12-16, 18-19, 22-23.