Friday, November 30, 2018

Civil Rights, Day 9 - Class Recap


Me and my friends Scott and Clarke, in 2009 at a Portland Trail Blazers Playoff game. The Moda Center (then the Rose Garden) was built on land that was formerly part of the Albina neighborhood.

Hi everyone,

Today in class we wrapped up our viewing of Lift Ev'ry Voice and I introduced the Activism Project. 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: "We Shall Overcome" by Pete Seeger. Selected for today because it became a song that rallied many people together during the Civil Rights Movement. Lyrics here.

AGENDA 11/30/18:
News Brief – Grace
Finish Lift Ev'ry Voice
Discussion
Activism Project

Homework: Read the blog. Continue working on your Activism Project! Next news brief: Vicky.

News Brief: Grace had the news brief today and selected an article about this story to talk about: CNN.com - Alabama mall shooting suspect is arrested after a week of shifting police narratives. After discussing the story, we also checked in to see if anyone was up to anything interesting or fun outside of class over the weekend.

Vicky 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):


Lift Ev'ry Voice: Next, we finished watching an excellent documentary from OPB, called Lift Ev'ry Voice. If you want to watch again, share, or get caught up, it is here:


Here is the worksheet that goes along with the documentary:


As students were watching, I tried to pause and explain more of what was going on with maps and background information. I hope this was helpful in understanding!

Discussion: After the documentary, we went through the questions together as a class and had a discussion about the film. For the most part, I find that students generally have no idea about Portland's racial history and current issues, so I am glad that this unit allows for some connections to be made locally. I then collected the response questions, which will be entered in the gradebook as a behavior target.

Activism Project: Finally, I introduced the main project for the Civil Rights unit, which is where students choose to identify a cause that they care about and create a poster or brochure explaining why and how people could be involved. Here's the assignment sheet that I passed out in class:


This assignment will be due the last day we meet before break, December 20th. If you are leaving before that day for break, you will need to turn it in before.

Generally, students can choose almost anything that they want to, but I do want to hear about the issue before embarking on too much work. We will set aside a fair amount of class time before the break to do this, and I will provide large sheets of paper, but if a student wants to go above and beyond in working on the project at home or with a poster board, that is obviously great as well.

Thanks for your continued work and engagement with the Civil Rights unit! We will keep at it next week. Here's the schedule for our next few classes until break:

November 30 (above): Lift Ev’ry Voice (behavior grade) / Assign Activism Project (graded)

December 4: Little Rock Nine (graded) / Work Time on Activism Project (poster analysis activity)

6 (substitute): Children’s March (What Would You Do?) / Work Time on Activism Project

11: Music as Activism (graded) – partner assignment

13 (Wednesday): Share Music/Work time on Activism Project

15: MLK vs. Malcolm X – Whose Ideas Were Best?

19: Activism Project Work Time (final day)

21: Activism Project presentations/gallery walk/Unfinished Business with Civil Rights
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