Assignment is worth 100 points (33% bullets / 66% journal) due posted to Schoology at a date TBA. 
You may work with a partner – see directions below. In order to spread our studies across the spectrum – we will have no more than two groups working on a particular topic. Email me your choice of topic along with partner’s names if you are working as a group – first come first serve…
The Civil Rights Movement will serve as the core to our study of Government. The Fourteenth Amendment lies at the center of that movement. We will look hard at each and the relationship between the two.
First however, lets take a look back at events from the movement. The Blendspace that I’ve created will serve as our outline to that Civil Rights movement. We will work our way through these dates/events alongside your timeline. First though, take a quick refresher back to American History, to events off of that Blendspace.
- Billie Holiday
- Jackie Robinson
- Desegregation of the Army
- Emmett Till murder
- Montgomery Bus boycott –
- Little Rock Nine –
- Sit Ins
- Freedom Rides –
- Birmingham
- March on Washington – “I Have a Dream”
- 16th Street Baptist Church bombing –
- Selma
- Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
- 1968 Olympic Protest in Mexico City
- Your assignment will be to choose one of the above people / events. First, watch whatever I have linked on Blendspace that coincides with your chosen event, then survey, read, surf, and refresh your brain to the specific issue. Take enough notes that when we cross paths with your topic, that you can come up to the front of the class and remind us of why this is so important.
Post the following into your Schoology assignment
- INFORM YOURSELF – Read, listen, and watch to learn more about your topic of study
- Identify your chosen Civil Rights topic… and watch my link.
- Then search the Internet in regard to this topic in more detail.
- Link three good sources minimum – in addition to the one I’ve provided in your post.
- PART I – Bullet form of the event / the lead up to it, the event itself, and results of the event. Post at least 15 significant factors that were involved in the event of your choice. It could be things that came as a result of your event, or happened during your event…make sure that each of the bullets is three to five sentences long and makes sense on its own. This portion of the assignment (bullets and summary) counts 33%..
- Please go here for an example of appropriate bullets for this portion of the assignment.
- PART II – A “Day in the life” journal... 400 to 500 word target. single spaced. Assume an active role (participant) in your own interpretation of historical fiction. You may choose to be an individual who actually played a part in the event, or you can make up that role
- First write a separate paragraph prior to your journal – of where you are, who you are, why you will fit into this journal. Begin the paragraph with… “I am writing in the perspective of …”
- Skip a line, provide a date to the journal. Make absolutely sure the date that you have chosen for writing this journal is historically accurate and pertinent to the story you are about to tell. Proceed to write a journal of your experience that would realistically fit in with the actual events of the day. Also, set your journal up so that you do not write about things that have not yet occurred. Example – if you are a black teenager who is friends with Emmett Till and you are writing about going to the store in Money, Mississippi with him, and it is the day of that event – he’s not yet dead. So you cannot write about his death. Example – If you are a rider on the bus the evening that Rosa Parks – was arrested, and you are home writing your journal related to how attorneys from Connecticut Bail Bonds Group Hartford County helped the arrested person to get bail – you have no idea of all of the boycotting that is about to engulf Montgomery. Don’t write about the boycotts.
- You may choose to write about things that you think may happen, but haven’t yet occurred. This is called foreshadowing. Example you are one of the four original college students in the Greensboro Sit Ins. You are journaling in the evening of that first Sit in, after you returned from the Woolworths in downtown Greensboro and have arrived back at your college dorm. You can hope that people will follow the next day. But you don’t know if they will, so you cannot write that they have.
- You do not have to choose a famous person to journal. A bystander provides a great viewpoint. This portion of the assignment counts 66%. If you one person doing a narrative journal – that one journal will count the entire 66%. Two people – 33% for each narrative.
- Please go here for a look at a couple of very good first person journals from years past…
You may choose to do this assignment with a partner. Part I you may work together Part II the journal – each partner must each do a single reflection. Do them from varying perspectives – do not do the same individual. Post them together. Your grade will be the same if you choose to work together. Choose wisely. If you start with a partner and they don’t produce – you suffer the consequences.
Post your Schoology assignment in the following order…
- The subject or your work – followed by your name and partner name
- Bullet Points listing.
- Journal #1
- Journal #2
- post it to schoology in at one person sight only. Note at the top of the post who you are working with. Partner need only post – name of the subject and the name of the partner you are working with.
As we move through the Movement in class I will call on you (and partner) to provide added depth to our look at your chosen topic. I will also post your journals for others to read – so do a good job!
