Taking a Stand Lesson Six

February 7, 2010 by · 24 Comments · assignments

Mr. Kurtzman’s class

Like last week you will be working on research for the “Living Museum”. Use the links at the right, or do a Google search for information.  You should take notes in either a Google Document, or on paper with pen/pencil.

Ms. Liemthongsamout’s class

Think about a problem in your neighborhood or community that needs to be changed. What is that problem? Why does it need to be changed? Please send me three complete sentence describing the problem, why it is a problem, and why you think it needs to be fixed.

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Taking a Stand Lesson 5: Perseverance and the Civil Rights Movement

January 30, 2010 by · 45 Comments · assignments

I want you to think back about our first unit, Perseverance, and to think about what that quality has to do with the Civil Rights Movement.

  • Go back to this post, and read some of the comments, review the slideshow, and the video.
  • Come back here, and pick two questions to answer:
    1. Do you think that the people involved in the struggle for civil rights (Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr.) and the people you are reading about in the Taking a Stand unit (Gandhi) ever felt frustrated?
    2. Do you think these people had to use self-control?
    3. Do you think they might have used any of the self-control methods we talked about?
    4. Why would self-control be important for people like MLK, Rosa Parks, and Gandhi?
    5. Do you think it will help you in your struggles to use self-control?

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Taking a Stand Lesson 3b: Transportation and Jim Crow

January 21, 2010 by · No Comments · assignments

I want to you concentrate on how Jim Crow affected peoples ability to get around. Here are some links, concentrate on the ones that discuss the bus boycotts, and Rosa Parks. I’ve also added a couple of new links on Rosa Parks:

What you will do today is research. You will get information that will help you write and essay or a poem. I’m going to give you some links to sites that have links to information about

Martin Luther King, Jr.

African Americans

Rosa Parks

Great Women

Then, answer two of these questions:

  1. How important are buses to you? To your family?
  2. How would you feel being at “the back of the bus”?
  3. Why was this important?
  4. Why do you think boycotting the bus lines worked?
  5. Why do you think white people in the south did this?

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