Tuesday, April 30, 2019

May 3; 6

EQ:
How have women struggled to achieve gender equality?

CW:
Women's liberation: origins of second wave feminism
1960s note sheet and LGBT timeline
define feminism
male privilege checklist--handout
"The problem with no name...: The Feminine Mystique (1964)
video clip from 1960s DVD--Times, They are a Changin' (00:00--12:21)
Gloria Steinem and the creation of NOW (14:16--17:33)
Griswold vs. CT--1967--access to birth control
reading: Sexual Revolution of the 1960s
clips from Makers DVD-- the pill (10:45--12-ish)
abortion--14:00--20-ish; Roe v. Wade (1973)
video clip: Roe v. Wade
Casey vs. Planned Parenthood (1992)
Iowa abortion bill 
Georgia heartbeat bill
video clip: Could Roe be overturned?  
abortion restrictions and DIY abortion
clips from The Abortion Divide
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video clip: MS's last abortion clinic 
TX abortion regulations

HW:
STUDY NOTES FOR UNIT 7 QUEST (QUIZ/TEST--NO ESSAY) 


Monday, April 29, 2019

May 1-2

EQ:
Is Affirmative Action still useful in 2019?


CW:
discuss affirmative action reading and responses
small groups: college admissions activity and discussion
video clips:
college admissions officers
affirmative action challenged--Asian students and Harvard
Yale students on the college admissions scandal
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Poor Kids documentary

HW:
Read 27:2
Betty Friedan--The Feminine Mystique
NOW
ERA
Title IX
Roe v. Wade
 

Thursday, April 25, 2019

April 29-30

EQ:
What was President Johnson's vision for the Great Society?


CW:
background on LBJ
LBJ ordering pants
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The State of America in 1964
vision: "Out FDR FDR"
FDR's Second Bill of Rights speech
Harvest of Shame--1960
read: segments of LBJ's Univ of Michigan speech on his vision for a Great Society (Great Society Docs)
video clip: LBJ's Great Society
Pro/Con: Did the Great Society help in the fight against poverty?
class discussion on poverty and equality of opportunity in the United States
River Bluff HS in SC
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affirmative action reading
video clip: origins of affirmative action
video clip: College cheating scandal--meritocracy? 
begin Socratic Seminar questions on affirmative action

HW:
finish seminar questions

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

April 25-26

EQ:
What were the significant foreign and domestic policies of the Kennedy administration (1961-63)?


CW:
Cuban Missile Crisis--Oct 1962--from ppt
clips from 1960s DVD
Nov. 22, 1963--JFK assassinated in Dallas, TX
clips from VHS tape on JFK assassination
Zapruder Film
JFK assassination--clips from 1960s video 

HW:
Read 24:3
War on Poverty
Great Society programs
Medicare and Medicaid

Thursday, April 18, 2019

April 23-24

EQ:
What were the significant foreign and domestic policies of the Kennedy administration (1961-63)?

CW:
return/discuss Unit 6 exam
Unit 7 study guide
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1960 presidential election: the past vs. the future
TV changes the presidency--TV debates:
video clip: JFK's use of TV 
clips from CNN's Tricky Dick: background of Nixon and JFK; first TV debate
--On Demand-Xfinity
Bush Sr. checking his watch in 1992 
Admiral Stockdale--1992
VP Gore in Governor Bush's face in 2000
Rick Perry's "Oops"Moment--2011
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JFK inaugural speech--Jan. 20, 1961 
Marylin Monroe--1962
JFK: Cold Warrior against the USSR
JFK PPT and video clips from The 1960s DVD (5:48--22:45)
April 1961-Bay of Pigs Invasion against Cuba
winter/fall--Berlin Crisis--1961

HW:
Read 24:2
pp. 5-6
Cuban Missile Crisis
Death in Dallas

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

April 19; 22

EQ:


CW:
Unit 6 exam


HW:
Read 24:1 pp. 1-2
Election of 1960
JFK's Catholicism
Read 24:2 p. 1
"flexible response"
pp. 4
Bay of Pigs
Berlin Wall

Monday, April 15, 2019

April 17-18

EQ:
How did the CRM change from 1965-68?

CW:
notes: Black Panther Party--1966 (clips from Still I Rise; (10 Point Platform from CR Packet)
Dr. King in Chicago--clips from Still I Rise
video clip: 1967 Detroit riots
Part II--1967 urban unrest; Poor People's Campaign and Assassination (1:08:00--1:50:00)
primary source: Dr. King's views on poverty in America
video clip: Poor People's Campaign begins in Marks, MS
video clip: Resurrection City-May 1968
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ESSAY PREP

HW:
UNIT 6 EXAM NEXT CLASS! 

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

4th QUARTER BEGINS!!! APRIL 15-16

EQ:
How did Malcolm X impact the Civil Rights Movement?
Why did some CR activists move away from the philosophy of non-violence?


CW:
new seating chart
Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam (see Malcolm X handout in civil rights packet)
audio clip: Malcolm X explaining his name
read/discuss primary source docs--Ballot or the Bullet speech
clips from EOTP
clips from "Malcolm X"
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notes and video clips from the HBO doc, "King in the Wilderness"
guided note sheet
Part I: Watts Riots, Chicago, March Against Fear; Black Power (6-ish---43:47)
Stokely Carmichael reading from Civil Rights Packet
video clip from And Still I Rise--DVD on black power
notes: Black Panther Party--1966 (clips from Still I Rise; (10 Point Platform from CR Packet)
video clip: 1967 Detroit riots
IF TIME
Part II--1967 urban unrest; Poor People's Campaign and Assassination (1:08:00--1:50:00)
Dr, King's public's approval ratings
Dr. King's views on poverty in America
video clip: Poor People's Campaign begins in Marks, MS
video clip: Resurrection City-May 1968

HW:
PREP FOR UNIT EXAM
UNIT EXAM
A CLASS--FRIDAY APRIL 19
B CLASS--MONDAY, APRIL 22


Monday, April 08, 2019

APRIL 10-11--THIRD QUARTER IS OVER!

EQ:
To what extent was the civil rights movement effective in defeating de facto and de jure segregation?

CW:
notes quiz
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finish up discussion on Freedom Summer and Civil Rights Act of 1964
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MLK's Give us the Ballot speech--May 17, 1957--Lincoln  Memorial
excerpt of speech (first five minutes)
Jan--Mar 1965: Selma Campaign for voting rights begins 
from CR Packet--data on voter registration in the South
video clip from "Selma" Annie Lee Cooper registration scene
EXAMPLES OF LITERACY TESTS
clips from EOTP
Feb. 18--Jimmy Lee Jackson beaten and shot--dies eight days later
March 7, 1965--Bloody Sunday (EOTP)
clip from "Selma"
March 9, 1965--Turnaround Tuesday (30:00--39-ish; from EOTP)
--clip from Selma
James Reeb's vicious attack
March 13--Gov. Wallace and President Johnson meet in the Oval Office for three hours
clip from Selma
March 15, 1965--President Johnson calls for a Voting Rights Act --DVD
March to Montgomery---March 21, 1965--DVD
video clip: Dr. King's speech in Selma on March 25--25K people
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video clip: Shelby vs. Holder decision--2013

video clip: President Obama's speech in Selma--2015

video clip: voter purges
video clip: voter ID laws

HW:
Read 25:3---ESSAY #3
Riots in US cities
Kerner Commission Report
Dr. King shifts his focus
Black power
Malcolm X
Dr. King's murder


Friday, April 05, 2019

April 8-9

EQ:
To what extent was the civil rights movement effective in defeating de facto and de jure segregation?

CW:
1963 con't
Medgar Evers in Jackson, MS--clip from 1960s DVD
Governor Wallace's stand at the schoolhouse door in Alabama--1960s DVD
Medgar Evers murdered-June 11, 1963
JFK's speech on civil rights--1960s DVD 
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Aug. 28, 1963--March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom--7th anniversary of the murder of Emmett Till
goals of the March on Washington
complete text of the speech 
video clips from The March
18 Days later--
Sept. 15, 1963--16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham
4 Little Girls--victims
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1964:
video clip from King in the Wilderness on FBI surveillance (54:00--59:00)
FBI letter sent to Dr. King's home
Freedom Summer Project in Mississippi
June 22, 1964 disappearance/murder of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney
(clip from 1960s DVD--51:18--)
 video clips from Freedom Summer DVD 
1. discuss VEP from Civil Rights documents 
2. MS prepares for invasion/training of FS volunteers (31:06--40:42)

video clip: July 2, 1964--Civil Rights Act signed into law--view document

3. volunteers leave for MS and start their work--FS DVD
(46:48--56:00)
video clip: Dave Dennis speech at JE Chaney's funeral and the trial of Edgar Ray Killen
video clip: Fannie Lou Hamer's speech at the DNC

HW:
NOTES QUIZ NEXT CLASS

Monday, April 01, 2019

April 4-5

EQ:
To what extent was the civil rights movement effective in securing equal rights for African Americans?

CW: 
video clip: SNCC created in April of 1960
May--Nov 1961 
video clip: Green Book--road trips while black in the Jim Crow era
Freedom Rides overview
Freedom Rides--1961(watch the film here)
(showing first 30-40 minutes; Fisk students enter the rides: 46:12--54:41; Montgomery Riot: 1:04:00--1:12:12; Parchman, MS: 1:30:00---1:52:00)
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1962--63
1962: Albany, GA campaign and its failures (short video overview from EOTP)
1963:
April--May
Project C/Children's Campaign in Birmingham (NOTES)
clips from EOTP
Letter from the Birmingham Jail--from packet

HW:
Freedom Summer reading (in big packet)
What? Where? Why?