THURSDAY, APRIL 30

"Mosquitoes hibernate!"

NOTEBOOKS OPEN TO EQUALITY SPECTRUM: CHECKING YOUR WORK!

              MAKE A TITLE PAGE: 

       " I GOTTA GET BACK TO THE 60 MAN!"

TONIGHT'S HOMEWORK  ASSIGNMENT:

Using the following TEXTBOOK pages...read and take notes for the following:  

MAKE A HEADING AT THE TOP OF YOUR PAGE:  

"ASSASSINATIONS"

1. JFK's Assassination - pp. 539- 540

2. MLK, Jr.'s Assassination - pp. 585-

3. Bobby Kennedy's Assination - pp. 616- 617

THIS IS AN INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOK ASSIGNMENT DUE MONDAY.  YOU MUST HAVE COLOR AND MUST HAVE COWBELL...

FOR EACH ASSASSINATION...GOOGLE ONE (1) IMAGE AND ONE (1) QUOTE AND GLUE THEM IN THE MARGINS OF YOUR NOTES. 

HOMEWORK FOR THURSDAY NIGHT:

LOOK AT TODAY'S POST...ANSWER CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS A & B IN YOUR NOTEBOOKS...FILL OUT THE SPECTRUM ...LOOK AT THE STATISTICS WE GLUED IN NB TODAY...HAVE THAT CEAL PARAGRAPH READY TO GO FIRST THING TOMORROW!

I WILL CHECK IT OFF FIRST THING...THEN WE WILL WATCH "POISONED DREAMS PART 2/3...GET GOING INTO THE 60'S AND VIETNAM NEXT WEEK!

GET READY...A TEXTBOOK CHAPTER IS COMING YOUR WAY!!!!

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29

"Kayaking is a required subject in Greenland's school!

MLK, Jr. vs. MALCOM X DIALOGUES DUE NOW!!!

-Discuss...Share in front of class -"Talk" about Baltimore Riots!!!!!

INTERACTIVE NB ENTRY:  RACIAL EQUALITY TODAY

Critical Thinking Question A: How would you define racial equality?


Critical Thinking Question B: What level of racial equality exists in the United States toda?

Mark the spectrum to show your decision...and then write a CEAL paragraph explaining/supporting your decision.

/                             /                             / 

No Equality               Some Equality             Full Equality                 

TODAY...MONDAY, APRIL 27...WE HANDED BACK CIVIL RIGHTS TESTS AND COLLAGE TIMELINES...WE BROKE INTO "MLK, JR." VS. "MALCOM X" TEAMS AND HAD A "DIALOGUE" BETWEEN THESE TWO LEADERS...THIS WAS A PRE-WRITING ACTIVITY.

IF YOU WERE TAKING A MAKE UP TEST...OR WERE GONE...IT IS ENTIRELY YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO HAVE THIS DONE BY WED.

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT:  20 POINTS...DUE WED. 4/29...START OF THE PERIOD.

REMEMBER: Tomorrow, 8:00am to 1:00 pm = ACT TESTING

"A WRITTEN DIALOGUE BETWEEN MALCOM X AND MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR."

OUT OF NOTEBOOK EXPERIENCE...THAT MEANS...DON'T PUT IT IN SPIRAL!!!

MUST BE DONE IN INK OR TYPED!!!!!

MUST HAVE A TOTAL OF 20 PROMPTS (ONE FROM EACH LEADER)...EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU WILL START WITH THE FOLLOWING:

1.MALCOM X: "Martin, you're going about this civil rights movement all wrong man!"

2.KING:  "Is that right?  Well, Brother Malcom, do you have any better ideas?"

3. MALCOM X: "As a matter of fact, I do...

YOU MUST FINISH MALCOM'S THOUGHT...AND CONTINUE THE DISCUSSION UNTIL YOU REACH 20 (YOU MAY EXCEED 20 IF YOU WISH)

COWBELL:  INCLUDE AS MANY IDEAS AND DETAILS FROM YOUR BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES...AND USE AS MANY ACTUAL QUOTES AS YOU CAN.

THOSE WHO WISH FOR "A's" ...better provide a detailed discussion...and must "stick" to the leader's position.

ALL WRITTEN MATERIALS WILL BE G-RATED AND SCHOOL APPROPRIATE!@!!

MONDAY, APRIL 27

"IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY, NIKE IS THE GOD OF VICTORY!"

 

Happy Monday!!!

 

Those that missed the Civil Rights Test on Friday... you are taking the Make-Up exam now...when finished you will start on the Homework that was assigned Friday...this is due Wed. 

 

 

THOSE WHO WERE HERE FRIDAY...OPEN YOUR NOTEBOOKS TO THE MLK vs. MALCOM X VENN DIAGRAM AND GET READY TO "TALK IT OUT!"

 

BEFORE WE START...GRADES ARE POSTED...PASSING BACK CIVIL RIGHTS BOMB (TEST) and CIVIL RIGHTS TIME LINES!!!!

 

NO CLASS TOMORROW...ACT TEST...DIALOGUES ARE 

FRIDAY, APRIL 24

"The sun's surface is transparent!"

CIVIL RIGHTS EXAM NOW!

HOMEWORK OVER WEEKEND TOO!!!!!!!

READ BOTH "BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES" FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. AND MALCOM X...

GLUE VENN DIAGRAM IN NOTEBOOKS...COMPLETE VENN FOR BOTH LEADERS...

ON MONDAY WE WILL HAVE A "DIALOGUE BETWEEN" THESE LEADERS!!

THURSDAY NIGHT WARNING!!!

Today we had a "Sit-In Demonstration"...I think it went well???

STUDY HARD...CIVIL RIGHTS EXAM TOMORROW:

10 Chronological Order
Teeter-Totter
Organizations...gotta know what they stand for???
Leaders...gotta put a face to a name????
15 Vocab...Terms...

Better study everything...timelines, big sheet survey of Civil Rights...notes...from lecture and from the Documentary??? 

IF YOU ARE GONE TOMORROW...FOR WHATEVER REASON...YOU WILL TAKE A DIFFERENT TEST THE VERY NEXT TIME I SEE YOU...STUDY TOO!

THURSDAY, APRIL 23

"The Statue of Liberty's waist is size 35...feet!"

NB'S Open..."Flocab is in the house..."Let Freedom Ring"

Review "Faces" very quickly

SIT-IN ROLE PLAY

EXAM TOMORROW: History of the Civil Rights Movement

 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22

"McDonald's uses 560 million pounds of beef each year!"

TODAY:

Finish "History of Civil Rights Movement Documentary"...answer any questions you might have...study silently if time left.

STUDY TONIGHT...

THURSDAY: 

"SIT-IN SIMULATION" 

STUDY THURSDAY PM

FRIDAY:

100 POINT EXAM ON CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

TUESDAY NIGHT HOMEWORK:

STUDY ALL NOTES ON CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT:

a.) Interactive Timeline
b.) Huge sheet with history of Civil Rights on both sides of it...
c.) Civil Rights Terms Packet Items 1-43
d.) Class notes...Teeter-Totters...leaders & organizations
e.) Notes from Documentary (yes...test items) which we finish tomorrow

100 POINT EXAM THURSDAY

STUDY...STUDY...STUDY!

TUESDAY, APRIL 21

"The first leap year was in 46 b.c."

Due to 31 "zeroes" yesterday regarding Civil Rights Timelines...we will alter original plans.

 TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY:

Watch "Civil Rights History Documentary"...take notes...study Civil War Packet/terms...Teeter-totter...faces...organizations...

QUIZZAM on Civil Rights Movement THURSDAY: 100 Points

Tentative Format...subject to change...

10 Chronological Order
40 Fill-ins - Teeter Totter...Faces/Leaders...Organizations
50 Point ID: First Paragraph= Facts...Cowbell, 2nd Paragraph= The Significance...this will be a major event of the Civil Rights Movement...there will be a different ID for each class period...

STUDY!...or DON'T STUDY

MONDAY, APRIL 20

"Every second, 100,000 chemical reactions occur in your brain!"

Civil Rights Timeline/Collage due now! 

Civil Rights Terms??? Vocab?????

Discuss Civil Rights of 1950's...set you up for "THE 60's"

THURSDAY, APRIL 16

"The ears of an African elephant can weigh up to 110 lbs. each!"

Today all Juniors are signing up for ACT test in Main Conference Room.  Report there immediately...you will be the for the entire period.

NO SCHOOL TOMORROW!

CIVIL RIGHTS COLLAGE/TIMELINES ARE DUE MONDAY...50 POINTS...SEE PREVIOUS POST FOR DETAILS.

STUDY YOUR NOTES...TEETER TOTTER AND CIVIL WAR TERMS PACKET!!!!

SEE YOU ALL MONDAY!

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15

"Water can flow through a plant at 4 mph!"

Lecture Notes: Civil Rights TEETER-TOTTER

Key orgainizations:  NAACP, CORE, SCLC, SNCC

Mini-Quiz

Emmet Till video

Tomorrow you are signing up for ACT during your US History class...

CIVIL RIGHTS COLLAGE DUE MONDAY

TUESDAY, MAY 14

"A human eyeball weighs about an ounce!"

Assign Civil Rights Road Map Collage: DUE MONDAY, April 20 = 50 Points

Study Civil Rights Vocab Packet: 25 items...2 points each!


CIVIL RIGHTS SLIDE LECTURE: Bottom Line #3: The Bitter history...

"STRENGTH...DISCIPLINE...PURPOSE"

If you are gone...you will have to get notes from a classmate!

MONDAY, APRIL 13

"The average person owns 25 T-Shirts"

*Emmett Till Web Assignment Due NOW!...Turn in on front table...

*Hand back Current Event from Friday!

*****IF YOU WERE GONE AND DID NOT GET THESE...PICK UP STUFF...DUE WED.

***SODA-CRACKER ACTIVITY TODAY ***

*CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT QUIZ AFTER (IF TIME ALLOWS)

WHICH BOTTOM LINE???? 
 THURSDAY: 
Quizzam: 25 Matching from packet 2 Pts. each
50 Points
STUDY Civil Rights packet "Vocabulary words: terms, people, events"....

CIVIL RIGHTS VISUAL PROJECT 50 Points

From WWII to 1968

Pick 10 Events...make a time-line...
Put date down, and a brief explanation of event and a Picture...

BE CREATIVE AND FILL UP THE "ROAD TO EQUALITY" SIZE 11x17 Paper...

Collage Images of the Civil Rights Movement
Quotes from the Civil Rights Movement

FRIDAY, APRIL 10

"Ducks have 6 eyelids...3 in each eye!"

Current Event on South Carolina Shooting!

Slave Ship....activity..."THE BITTER HISTORY BEHIND CIVIL RIGHTS"

Homework:  Read through Civil Rights terms (packet) and do the Emmett Til Web assignment ...have it filled out and ready on Monday...better know what happened here!!!!!

On Monday..."Soda Cracker Activity: Economic...Political...Status"...Civil Rights 1950's

THURSDAY, APRIL 9

"It takes four to five months to re-grow an entire fingernail!"

If you are gone Thurs/Friday...you should have pick up the Civil Rights Timeline to glue in NB...and a packet with some 40 Vocab terms that relate to the Civil Rights Movement.  Look over both carefully.

Finish "42" today...discuss...team up with a neighbor and look through the Document Packet on Jackie Robinson's Civil Rights accomplishments.

10 PointHomework Assignment: Due Tomorrow:

Current Event on Shooting...read it, have the Green Current Event sheet filled out 100% and be ready to discuss Bottom Line #3 tomorrow.  
Homework over the weekend: 

"Analyzing the Murder of Emmett Till"...this is a web-based analysis...make certain you fill out the chart and then answer the question at the end... due Monday...20 Points!

Friday:  Slave Ship!!!

WEDNESDAY, APRIL8

"Snakes do not blink!"

Watching "42"...pick up and read through Civil Rights Materials if you were gone!

Finish movie tomorrow...start unit!

TUESDAY, APRIL 7

"House cats can sprint as fast as 30 mph!"

Watching "42" (The Jackie Robinson Story)

We will be getting the Interactive NB materials and assignments on Wednesday...make certain you pick them up if you are gone!

MONDAY, APRIL 6

"Every year, 5,000 people injure themselves playing pool!"

Welcome Back!

Pick up Notebooks

Make a full-page title page:

4th Quarter starts here

 put your 3rd Qtr. grade on this page...and 50 BIC Points

START QUARTER OFF WITH 

"42"