Civil Rights, Day 8 - Class Recap

We continued watching the documentary "Lift Ev'ry Voice" today in class, which goes over how the creation of the Memorial Coliseum and Moda Center impacted the African-American community in Portland. Photo taken in 2009.

Dear class,

Another quick Wednesday together, as we continued talking about Civil Rights in Portland. 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: "Alabama" by John Coltrane. Selected for today because Coltrane composed this in response to a bombing at a church in Alabama in 1963 that killed four African-American girls. Learn more here.

AGENDA 11/28/18:
News Brief – Anusha
Kelly on Vanport
Lift Ev'ry Voice
Discussion

Homework: Read the blog. Know your grade and how to improve it, if possible! Next news brief: Grace.

News Brief: Anusha had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: CNN.com - Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith wins Mississippi US Senate runoff amid racial controversies. After discussing the story, we also checked in to see if anyone was up to anything interesting or fun outside of class.

Grace 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):

BBCNews.com - One-minute World News

Kelly on Vanport: At the start of this unit, Kelly Simonsen, who is an instructional aid in Period 1 and 3, asked me if we would be talking about Vanport in class, as she wrote a paper in college about it! So, I asked if she would be willing to share parts of the paper with the class, which she did as a reminder as to what happened with Vanport (as seen last class in the first part of the documentary). Here's the paper, with parts highlighted that she shared in class:

Google Drive - Kelly's Vanport Paper

Thank you Kelly, for sharing your research and paper with everyone!

Lift Ev'ry Voice: For the rest of class, we continued watching an excellent documentary from OPB, called Lift Ev'ry Voice, and ended class about 51 minutes in. If you want to watch again, share, or get caught up, it is here:

OPB.org - Portland Civil Rights: Lift Ev'ry Voice

Here is the worksheet that goes along with the documentary:

Google Drive: Lift Ev'ry Voice Documentary Questions

I think it is super important that we understand our own history regarding race in Portland, especially as I think there are some common assumptions that are just not true. As such, I was glad to see that almost everyone was glued to this in class. Thanks for your focus and willingness to learn about our own history! We will finish this next class and then turn our attention back to national level issues with the Civil Rights movement.