Welcome Back from the Holiday Weekend!
** This is the final week to make up missing work. Please check power school.
Weekly Agenda:
We will be studying and making connections with Civil Rights in the United States as an extension of the US Constitution and the Civil War units!
Monday: No School
Tuesday:
1. Segregation of Public Facilities: Students will analyze photos and documents from the era of segregation, beginning with the Jim Crow era up until the 1960s. Students will be asked to define the who, what, where and why of segregation after the Civil War based on these images and documents.
Wednesday:
1. Quick Review of Brown V. Board of Education (from the Constitution Unit): A legal end to Jim Crow.
2. School Integration: Students will be examining primary sources from the archives of Ole' Miss and the National Civil Rights Center at Little Rock High School.
3. Read-aloud: A Mighty Long Way: The Carlotta Walls Story
**What was the divide between the federal order to integrate and local and state responses.
**What types of civil action and personal risks were taken to begin integration?
Thursday:
Today students will be reading brief descriptions of Americans taking personal risks to achieve equality promised in so many of America's founding documents and court rulings. Each pair will create a quick teaching tool with which to brief their peers. Topics include: Women's Suffrage; Indian Citizenship Act; Little Rock Nine; Rosa Parks; Sit-in Protests; Freedom Rides; March on Washington; Civil Rights Act and Affirmative Action.
Friday:
Student pairs will present their findings from yesterday's readings.