In Forrest Gump, we get a glimpse of many different periods in history. You will select one and produce a posterboard. There must be ten pictures or images with a caption attached to each one. You may not print large pieces of text and attach them. Each must be hand-crafted.
Due Thursday!
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Gandhi, Mississippi Burning, and Malcolm X
We finished Mississippi Burning and discussed the Civil Rights movement. This movie, while having excellent action, did not really give you an overview of the whole movement. This movie was based on the murder of three civil rights activists, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman. A link to the complete story is below:
http://www.abanet.org/irr/hr/spring00humanrights/chaney.html
In our Civil Rights Trio, traced the origin of the philosophy of passive nonresistance as used by Gandhi to help free India from British colonization. This philosophy, satyagraha, was used by Martin Luther King to organize boycotts and demonstrations that were instrumental in the American Civil Rights movement. The work of Gandhi inspired movements all over the world, from Africa, to Ireland, and the United States. However, there came a point in the American movement where nonviolence was not accepted by everyone. This point is generally considered to be 1965, where the Civil Rights movement splits into a violent direction.
The following link is footage of the Watts riots in Los Angeles. Damage occurring during these riots exceeded 200 million dollars.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?client=safari&rls=en&q=watts+riots&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#
Because of racial tensions, violence in cities, and Klan violence in response to voter registration drives in the South, many people rejected the idea of peaceful noncooperation as promoted by Martin Luther King. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, Freedom Riders, and SNCC/CORE/COFO campaigns had not cured the system, and many people expected race riots.
A year later, in 1966, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. This group used grass-roots organizing techniques and paramilitary features to organize blacks in the event that race relations continued to break down.
http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/1966/10/15.htm
Malcom X began his reformation through the Nation of Islam, also a black separatist group. Throughout his life, he crusaded for separation of blacks and whites. After his hajj to Mecca, his philosophy changed abruptly. We have discussed this and will continue to discuss this philosophy.
Read more on the following issues and people:
Marcus Garvey:
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/twenty/tkeyinfo/garvey.htm
W.E.B. Dubois:
http://www.duboislc.org/html/DuBoisBio.html
SNCC/CORE/COFO:
http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/
http://www.core-online.org/History/history.htm
http://library.thinkquest.org/C004391F/cofo.htm
Critical Questions:
1. How did Gandhi influence Civil Rights and decolonization throughout the world?
2. What two philosophies about Civil Rights existed in America post 1965? Which organizations and people aligned with non-violent philosophies, and which aligned with philosophies that permitted militarism and violence?
3. How did the evolution in Malcolm X's thinking about Civil Rights affect the United States? Explain his thinking about Islam both before and after his hajj?
4. What role did the student organizations play in Civil Rights? How prepared for the situation were these students? What actions did they take to help others secure rights?
5. Explain how the role of women in the Civil Rights movement affected the women's rights movements of the 1970's.
http://www.abanet.org/irr/hr/spring00humanrights/chaney.html
In our Civil Rights Trio, traced the origin of the philosophy of passive nonresistance as used by Gandhi to help free India from British colonization. This philosophy, satyagraha, was used by Martin Luther King to organize boycotts and demonstrations that were instrumental in the American Civil Rights movement. The work of Gandhi inspired movements all over the world, from Africa, to Ireland, and the United States. However, there came a point in the American movement where nonviolence was not accepted by everyone. This point is generally considered to be 1965, where the Civil Rights movement splits into a violent direction.
The following link is footage of the Watts riots in Los Angeles. Damage occurring during these riots exceeded 200 million dollars.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?client=safari&rls=en&q=watts+riots&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#
Because of racial tensions, violence in cities, and Klan violence in response to voter registration drives in the South, many people rejected the idea of peaceful noncooperation as promoted by Martin Luther King. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, Freedom Riders, and SNCC/CORE/COFO campaigns had not cured the system, and many people expected race riots.
A year later, in 1966, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. This group used grass-roots organizing techniques and paramilitary features to organize blacks in the event that race relations continued to break down.
http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/1966/10/15.htm
Malcom X began his reformation through the Nation of Islam, also a black separatist group. Throughout his life, he crusaded for separation of blacks and whites. After his hajj to Mecca, his philosophy changed abruptly. We have discussed this and will continue to discuss this philosophy.
Read more on the following issues and people:
Marcus Garvey:
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/twenty/tkeyinfo/garvey.htm
W.E.B. Dubois:
http://www.duboislc.org/html/DuBoisBio.html
SNCC/CORE/COFO:
http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/
http://www.core-online.org/History/history.htm
http://library.thinkquest.org/C004391F/cofo.htm
Critical Questions:
1. How did Gandhi influence Civil Rights and decolonization throughout the world?
2. What two philosophies about Civil Rights existed in America post 1965? Which organizations and people aligned with non-violent philosophies, and which aligned with philosophies that permitted militarism and violence?
3. How did the evolution in Malcolm X's thinking about Civil Rights affect the United States? Explain his thinking about Islam both before and after his hajj?
4. What role did the student organizations play in Civil Rights? How prepared for the situation were these students? What actions did they take to help others secure rights?
5. Explain how the role of women in the Civil Rights movement affected the women's rights movements of the 1970's.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Civil Rights
We will discuss how Gandhi's freedom movement affected people in the United States by watching Mississippi Burning and Malcolm X. You will be asked to compare and contrast the movies and to decide which one better represents the issue in your mind.
After watching Mississippi Burning, you will research one person, issue, or organization pertaining to Civil Rights. You will hand in your research or present it to the class.
After Malcolm X, we will discuss the two branches of resistance that emerge in the mid to late 60s in response to the Vietnam War, riots, and the delay of civil rights. We will discuss Malcolm X's role in this resistance and watch how his philosophies change over time. We will then take a look at groups that promote peace as well as separatist groups.
For those of you looking to get ahead, research the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is a hatewatch group. They keep track of hate in the United States, expose it where possible, and lend legal services to those affected by hate crimes.
After watching Mississippi Burning, you will research one person, issue, or organization pertaining to Civil Rights. You will hand in your research or present it to the class.
After Malcolm X, we will discuss the two branches of resistance that emerge in the mid to late 60s in response to the Vietnam War, riots, and the delay of civil rights. We will discuss Malcolm X's role in this resistance and watch how his philosophies change over time. We will then take a look at groups that promote peace as well as separatist groups.
For those of you looking to get ahead, research the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is a hatewatch group. They keep track of hate in the United States, expose it where possible, and lend legal services to those affected by hate crimes.
Gandhi projects
Of the Gandhi projects that were presented, most of them were good. Our presentations are moving in the right direction--facts, backed up, with notecards used. There were a few papers, that were also good.
We will be moving toward Civil Rights in the United States...
We will be moving toward Civil Rights in the United States...
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Gandhi, day 2
Today we saw Gandhi's return to India and his plans to be nonviolent but not passive in bringing about an end to colonialism.
We will not be watching the movie tomorrow, since I will be at a conference. I have provided a handout which includes many of Gandhi's inspirational sayings. You will be responsible to comment on at least 5 of them and provide examples of how these apply to a situation in your life or a situation today in society.
Some of you do not seem as excited about Gandhi as I am. In my mind, he is one of the most influential people ever to have walked the earth.
Reasons why Gandhi was a true revolutionary:
1. He lived in a society where there was prejudice from the outside (from Britain), from within Indian society (the caste system) and prejudice and hatred between religions (Christian, Hindu, Muslim). He did not discriminate against religions, social classes, or races.
2. He did not back down from a fight, but at the same time he did not fight using violence--he used his courage to organize and respond with nonviolence at all times.
3. When his followers wanted to resort to violence, he stopped them.
4. His writings and actions have been influential in freedom movements all over the world--Africa, the United States civil rights movement, Irish reconciliation, and all over the world.
Would any of us have the courage to stand up for something we believed in using nonviolence? Would we risk losing our entire way of life to do the right thing? We have seen two movies that showed people who used such unbelievable courage.
If you are interested in doing extra work that can either be applied to the first or second quarter (for first quarter, I must receive it by next Tuesday), you may do the following:
1. Write a compare/contrast essay about the courage shown by Gandhi and Schindler.
2. Discuss (essay/Power Point) how Gandhi influenced other people/freedom movements in the world.
3. Apply the situation in Gandhi's time (religious discrimination and discrimination as a result of the caste system) to another society (even America).
4. Research the caste system in India. Discuss the issue of "dalit's rights" in India today.
A well-researched paper of at least 3-4 pages in MLA format with citations complete will be able to replace a bad grade--credit will be related to the effort and quality of the work.
We will not be watching the movie tomorrow, since I will be at a conference. I have provided a handout which includes many of Gandhi's inspirational sayings. You will be responsible to comment on at least 5 of them and provide examples of how these apply to a situation in your life or a situation today in society.
Some of you do not seem as excited about Gandhi as I am. In my mind, he is one of the most influential people ever to have walked the earth.
Reasons why Gandhi was a true revolutionary:
1. He lived in a society where there was prejudice from the outside (from Britain), from within Indian society (the caste system) and prejudice and hatred between religions (Christian, Hindu, Muslim). He did not discriminate against religions, social classes, or races.
2. He did not back down from a fight, but at the same time he did not fight using violence--he used his courage to organize and respond with nonviolence at all times.
3. When his followers wanted to resort to violence, he stopped them.
4. His writings and actions have been influential in freedom movements all over the world--Africa, the United States civil rights movement, Irish reconciliation, and all over the world.
Would any of us have the courage to stand up for something we believed in using nonviolence? Would we risk losing our entire way of life to do the right thing? We have seen two movies that showed people who used such unbelievable courage.
If you are interested in doing extra work that can either be applied to the first or second quarter (for first quarter, I must receive it by next Tuesday), you may do the following:
1. Write a compare/contrast essay about the courage shown by Gandhi and Schindler.
2. Discuss (essay/Power Point) how Gandhi influenced other people/freedom movements in the world.
3. Apply the situation in Gandhi's time (religious discrimination and discrimination as a result of the caste system) to another society (even America).
4. Research the caste system in India. Discuss the issue of "dalit's rights" in India today.
A well-researched paper of at least 3-4 pages in MLA format with citations complete will be able to replace a bad grade--credit will be related to the effort and quality of the work.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Projects/Papers due
Remember, you voted to take the extra day to prepare the papers and projects on worldwide genocide. The world community said "never again" after the horrors of the Jewish Holocaust became known. Our key question after watching "Schindler's List" is why have there been so many genocides since that time? Why is it that the world does not seem to have learned its lesson? What are the root causes of these horrors, and is it possible to stop them?
You were given a checklist and we discussed quality paper writing and effective strategies for presentations. Double check your project using your checklist.
This is our last major project of the quarter--Halloween marks the end of Quarter 1.
You will be responsible for taking notes during the presentations--a quiz will follow!
You were given a checklist and we discussed quality paper writing and effective strategies for presentations. Double check your project using your checklist.
This is our last major project of the quarter--Halloween marks the end of Quarter 1.
You will be responsible for taking notes during the presentations--a quiz will follow!
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Presentations and Papers: Period 4 (Schindler's List)
We have been in the computer lab--we have one more day scheduled today. You will finish your papers or presentations, which are due Thursday. No late work will be accepted. We have agreed upon this date.
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