Class Updates: 3/28/13 and 3/29/13

Yesterday (3/28/13) I was not in class, I know that we worked on our eBooks which were due last night. The eBooks main purpose was to create a story that ties in the main events of The Civil Rights Movement. My story was about a boy’s life and how his personality is shaped due to the racial discrimination of The Civil Rights Movement and the ignorance surrounding him.

Today in class (3/29/13) we started our flipped classroom for the first time! Last night we were asked to watch two videos about the expansion of the English Colonies and the Louisiana Purchase. We then took a short quiz on the information.  We were also asked to depict a statue with links of pictures surrounding it and figure out who the people were. In the computer lab we became a member of The Corps of Discovery and we went through an online journey were we had to make the correct choices.

Diary of the Corps of Discovery

https://docs.google.com/document/d/17WtTkX_p0elESl12ZjCWN0PleTv4n6jWoFca3QfL8qg/edit?usp=sharing

The Civil Rights Movement story

Class Updates: 3/26/13 and 3/27/13

Yesterday in class (3/26/13) we finished talking about the Black Panthers. We also talked about how we are going to do a flipped classroom fourth quarter. We signed up for Sophia.org, on this website we will watch videos outside of class to learn the information then take short quizzes on the information. Today in class (3/27/13) we went to the computer lab to work on our stories for The Civil Rights Movement they are due tomorrow night. 

Class Updates: 3/22/13 and 3/25/13

On Friday (3/22/13) we talked about The Civil Rights Act of 1964 which was basically the same as The Civil Rights Act of 1875. The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was declared unconstitutional but The Civil Rights act of 1964 was more enforced and wasn’t taken away. We also talked about The Voting Rights Act. In March of 1965 in Selma, Alabama protesters marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge asking for voting rights, they were assaulted by whites and law enforcement officials.  Today in class (3/25/13) we talked about The Black Panthers who were a group of African Americans fighting for causes. They wanted things like descent housing, free health care and education.

Class Updates: 3/19/13 and 3/20/13

Yesterday (3/19/13) we did not have class due to the snow day. Today in class (3/20/13) we listened to Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Had a Dream Speech and Malcolm X’s speech. Martin Luther King Jr. wanted peace and non-violent protests while Malcolm X wanted violence and to gain land. We also discussed if Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech changed racism completely in America today. The truth is it didn't, although it provided significant progress to racial equality, racial discrimination against African Americans still exists today. 

Class Updates: 3/15/13 and 3/18/13

In class (3/15/13) we got in groups and read about Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. who are both Civil Rights Activists. Malcolm X believed in more violent ideas compared to Martin Luther King Jr. who believed in more non-violent ideas, he knew that African Americans would gain their freedom because they got away from the cold arms of slavery.

Today in class (3/18/13) we finished the worksheets from Friday. We also talked about doing more activities that would keep the knowledge with us forever rather than studying for a test and then forgetting the information directly after the test.