We watched the middle third of Freedom Riders, as students took notes for their paper about the film. Students spent the last 20 minutes of class working on their U.S. Cities assignment.
After watching the CNN Student News, students took a 10 point quiz over Chapter 18. We traded and graded in class.
We watched the middle third of Freedom Riders, as students took notes for their paper about the film. Students spent the last 20 minutes of class working on their U.S. Cities assignment.
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Today we began our study of Chapter 18, the Civil Rights Movement. We looked at some of the key Supreme Court cases, events, and people. Then we began watching an American Experience documentary, Freedom Riders, about the events of 1961 when white and black members of CORE traveled by bus to the south, in an effort to push against segregation laws and practices. We will continue the film on Thursday. Students are writing about the film in response to a list of prompts and questions (available on the Home page in Assignments).
Students worked on completing their U.S. Cities assignment during the final fifteen minutes of class. There will be a quiz over Chapter 18 on Thursday. We began class with a brief lecture/discussion comparing the American experience in Vietnam with the British experience in the American Revolution. We found a number of ways in which the wars were similar. Students worked on their timelines of the war in Vietnam. We reviewed the events near the end of the war.
Before watching the CNN Student News, we listened to a couple of songs from a Frank Zappa album, We're Only In It For the Money. Frank was poking fun at the counterculture of the late 1960s, particularly the hippie movement in San Francisco. We began our three day study of the war in Vietnam today. Students began making a timeline of events. We discussed the events they were finding, why they are key to understanding the war, and added a few more. We also listened to a 1968 song by the Buffalo Springfield, For What It's Worth, that suggested Americans on both sides of the issues dividing the country at that time to step back and listen to what the other side was saying. Later in 1968, Walter Cronkite came back from Vietnam with his opinion that the war was not winnable.
On Thursday, we will continue with the timeline, look at causes of the war, and compare the war to the British experience in the American War of Independence. Note that your outline for the essay What Then Is The American? is due next Tuesday, October 21. Please submit it through this website. Note that the test over Chapters 19 and 20 is next week on Thursday, October 23. Students answered questions from Chapter 20, sections 1 & 2 (see the home page under assignments for October 9). We watched more of the documentary The Sixties: Years That Shaped a Generation and discussed some of the important points as students took notes.
Students took an eleven question quiz to see how much they know about the 1960s. Quite a few people got 6 or more correct.
We took time to read (or reread for those who already completed the reading assignment) the first section of Chapter 20. We spent the rest of class watching a PBS documentary film about the 1960s, focusing on the war in Vietnam, the civil rights movement, and the youth counterculture. I have 1960s records from my collection in the classroom for students to examine. Expect a quiz over Chapter 20 next week on Tuesday (October 14). To begin our study of the tumultuous decade of the 1960s we watched an episode of the CBS Television program All In The Family. "Lionel Moves Into the Neighborhood aired on March 2, 1971. Though from the early 1970s, it reflects the racial tension that was brewing in the 60s, the generational divide between baby boomers and their parents, and the growing political tension in the country.
Your Unit 7 tests are all graded and entered into RenWeb. The class average score is 93.5/100. Way to go, Juniors! |
James WaltersMr. Walters has taught at RAA since 1985. He currently teaches Geography, World History, American History, Government, Economics and Handbell Ensembles. He is Music Director/Organist of Magnolia Presbyterian Church and is an adjunct professor at Concordia University Wisconsin, teaching Handbell Methods and Materials. Archives
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