These are all of the 9th grade students on their first day at Westview this year. Imagine how different it would be to enter high school as one of the Little Rock Nine?
Given that I will be out on Thursday at a 9th Grade Success training, this was the one day this week I was able to spend time with you all! As such, we continuing looking at civil rights issues, including school integration after the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Here's what happened in class:
Learning Targets Addressed:
Behavior LT 1: I can self direct my learning.
Communication LT 1: I can communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
Knowledge LT 16: I can explain the process of change and continuity in a society, place, or region.
Knowledge LT 19: I can explain the role and impacts of social hierarchies.
Soundtrack: "Blackbird" by The Beatles. Selected for today because the song was partially inspired by the Little Rock Nine. Lyrics here.Communication LT 1: I can communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.
Knowledge LT 16: I can explain the process of change and continuity in a society, place, or region.
Knowledge LT 19: I can explain the role and impacts of social hierarchies.
AGENDA 12/4/18:
News Brief – Megan
Little Rock Nine
Poster Slogans
Work Time
News Brief: Megan had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: BBC.com - Body found in search for US woman missing in Costa Rica. After discussing the story, we also checked in to see if anyone was up to anything interesting or fun outside of class over the weekend.
Zion was selected to do the next news brief (on Thursday with the guest teacher) and Kyle will have it on Monday.
As part of the news brief, we also watched the one minute BBC World News update. Here's the link to see the latest one minute update, at any time of day (it will probably be different from what we watched in class):
As a part of this, we watched this introductory video:
We then read some of the accounts from history texts about the Little Rock Nine, which are linked to here:
If you did not finish this in class today, please turn it in ASAP!
Poster Slogans: We didn't have much time in class to do this today, so I just passed this sheet out (so students can see some examples if they are wanted to work on the Activism Project at home) and we will work on it next week.
Hopefully this helped a bit in thinking about what you might do as your Activism Project!
Work Time: Last week, I introduced the main project for the Civil Rights unit, which is where students choose to identify a cause that they care about and create a poster or brochure explaining why and how people could be involved. Here's the assignment sheet that I passed out in class:
This assignment will be due the last day we meet before break, December 20th. If you are leaving before that day for break, you will need to turn it in before.
Generally, students can choose almost anything that they want to, but I do want to hear about the issue before embarking on too much work. We will set aside a fair amount of class time before the break to do this, and I will provide large sheets of paper, but if a student wants to go above and beyond in working on the project at home or with a poster board, that is obviously great as well.
Some examples of student choices are:
Climate Change
Animal Rights
Gun Issues
Immigration/Border Issues
Human Trafficking
Some examples of student choices are:
Climate Change
Animal Rights
Gun Issues
Immigration/Border Issues
Human Trafficking
Thanks for your continued work and engagement with the Civil Rights unit! We will keep at it next week. Here's our tentative schedule for our next few classes until break:
December 4 (above): Little Rock Nine (graded) / Work Time on Activism Project (poster analysis activity)
December 6 (substitute): Children’s March (What Would You Do?) / Work Time on Activism Project
December 11: Music as Activism (graded) – partner assignment
December 13 (Wednesday): Share Music/Work time on Activism Project
December 15: MLK vs. Malcolm X – Whose Ideas Were Best?
December 19: Activism Project Work Time (final day)
December 21: Activism Project presentations/gallery walk/Unfinished Business with Civil Rights
December 4 (above): Little Rock Nine (graded) / Work Time on Activism Project (poster analysis activity)
December 6 (substitute): Children’s March (What Would You Do?) / Work Time on Activism Project
December 11: Music as Activism (graded) – partner assignment
December 13 (Wednesday): Share Music/Work time on Activism Project
December 15: MLK vs. Malcolm X – Whose Ideas Were Best?
December 19: Activism Project Work Time (final day)
December 21: Activism Project presentations/gallery walk/Unfinished Business with Civil Rights
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