These are all of the 9th grade students on their first day at Westview last year (current students are likely in this photo!). Imagine how different it would be to enter high school as one of the Little Rock Nine?
Welcome back from Thanksgiving break! 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 12/4/19:
News Brief – Bopi
Finish Lift Ev'ry Voice
Little Rock Nine
Activism Project
Work Time
News Brief: Bopi had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: CNN.com - North Korea warns US to prepare for 'Christmas gift,' but no one's sure what to expect. 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.
Henry 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):
Finish Lift Ev'ry Voice: Due to the unexpected fire drill right before Thanksgiving break, we still had about 6 minutes left in this documentary about Portland's Civil Rights history. We finished watching the documentary and went through the questions on the worksheet together, before students turned it in for a behavior target grade.
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: After going through the Little Rock Nine readings, we started looking at the Activism Project in more depth.
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: Little Rock Nine (graded) / Work Time on Activism Project (poster analysis activity)
6: Children’s March (What Would You Do?) / Work Time on Activism Project
10: Music as Activism (graded) – partner assignment
12: Share Music/Work time on Activism Project
16: MLK vs. Malcolm X – Whose Ideas Were Best?
18: Activism Project Work Time (final day)
20: Activism Project presentations/gallery walk/Unfinished Business with Civil Rights
December 4: Little Rock Nine (graded) / Work Time on Activism Project (poster analysis activity)
6: Children’s March (What Would You Do?) / Work Time on Activism Project
10: Music as Activism (graded) – partner assignment
12: Share Music/Work time on Activism Project
16: MLK vs. Malcolm X – Whose Ideas Were Best?
18: Activism Project Work Time (final day)
20: Activism Project presentations/gallery walk/Unfinished Business with Civil Rights
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