The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC. Photo taken in 2011.
I intentionally waited until far into our Civil Rights unit to discuss Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X in depth, as we did today. It's important that students know there is WAY more to the Civil Rights Movement than these two men, and also, their ideas and lives are incredibly important to understand. Here's what we did today in class:
Learning Targets Addressed:
Behavior LT 3: I can communicate and work effectively within a team or group.
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.
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: "A Dream" by Common. Selected for today because of the obvious connection to learning about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lyrics here.
AGENDA 12/14/18:
News Brief – Emma A
MLK and Malcolm X
Compare and Contrast
Project Work Time
News Brief: Emma A had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: People.com - Daughter Found Dead with Dad in Apparent Murder-Suicide After Mom Asks Police to Check on Them. 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.
Megan was selected to do the next news brief.
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):
MLK and Malcolm X: To begin the next section of class, I showed this video introducing two of the key people in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States:
Next, we read a background essay about who Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were, before I split the class up into halves - one side learning about MLK's ideas and philosophy, and one side learning about Malcolm X and his ideas and philosophy. All of those documents are available to view here, online:
Compare and Contrast: Next, students completed the compare and contrast Venn Diagram (overlapping circles) to try and understand the ideas of both people. We talked about this as a class, and then went through this PowerPoint to understand a bit more of the context around who MLK and Malcolm X were:
As we went though the PowerPoint, student were taking notes and filling out information on this assignment sheet (both sides were due today in class):
This was all done in the hopes that students would have more depth of understanding around two of the most crucial figures in 20th century American history. I encourage everyone to continue to research on your own, as well!
Project Work Time: The rest of class (if we had time) was dedicated to working on the Activism Project, 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:
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 class. Here's our schedule for our next few classes until break:
December 14 (above): MLK vs. Malcolm X – Whose Ideas Were Best?
December 18: Activism Project Work Time (final day)
December 20: Activism Project presentations/gallery walk/Unfinished Business with Civil Rights
December 14 (above): MLK vs. Malcolm X – Whose Ideas Were Best?
December 18: Activism Project Work Time (final day)
December 20: Activism Project presentations/gallery walk/Unfinished Business with Civil Rights
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