US HISTORY
Unit 8, Week 3
Homework for the Week
• Monday: bring lesson rough draft
• Tuesday: Study for vocab quiz
• Block Day: Summary/Analysis of presentation
• Friday: Summary/Analysis of presentation
Agenda, Monday 3/10
• Distribute scoring guide
• Primary Source activity comparison
• MLK and JFK views on civil rights
struggle
HW: lesson rough draft due
Birmingham, Alabama
What was happening in
Birmingham, Alabama in the spring
of 1963?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lD37bq8YI
Letter from Birmingham jail
• Letter from a Birmingham Jail
• Why does MLK Jr. feel that the Birmingham
campaign is important?
• What is the main idea of the 2nd paragraph?
• What does he say (in the 3rd paragraph) is the
purpose of nonviolent direct action (in your own
words)?
• Describe what King is saying in the 5th paragraph.
• According to the last paragraph, why is it ok to break
the law?
• What is the purpose of this letter?
President Kennedy’s speech
• Kennedy’s Civil Rights speech
• What is Kennedy saying should happen, in the 2nd
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paragraph?
What does Kennedy mean when he says the nation must
live up to its promise?
How does Kennedy think we should fix our moral crisis?
(5th paragraph)
What steps does Kennedy say the government is doing to
fix the problem?
What steps does he ask the American people to also do?
What is the purpose of this letter?
Wrap-Up discussion
• What are individuals saying about the
events? What is the government
saying?
• Is it significant that the president is
taking a stand on civil rights?
• Would MLK agree with Kennedy?
• Would Kennedy agree with MLK?
Agenda, Tuesday, 3/11
• HOT ROC – freedom riders
• Project Work Time
• Review rough drafts, last planning day
HOT ROC
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRlZFk8Lc3Y
• Play from 3:18-5:00 and from 21:50-29:30
• Make notes of resistance against the freedom riders.
• What examples can you find of our hypotheses:
• Maintain racial order
• Afraid of blacks
• White women as victims of black sexual aggression
Agenda, Block Day, 3/12-3/13
• Presentation #1
• Presentation debrief
• Vocab Quiz
• Writing Instruction
• Conflicts between civil rights groups
HW: Summary/analysis of notes
Writing Instruction
• Prompt: Evaluate the effectiveness of the black power
movement’s strategies in gaining greater equality and
democracy for African Americans.
Conflicts between groups
• Who might belong to more than one civil
rights group?
• How might this cause conflicts?
• Forced to choose one group over the other
• Disagreement between people on which issues
are important
• Disagreements on the identity of the group (eg
lesbians in the women’s movement)
• Feeling compartmentalized by society
Friday 3/8/13
• Agenda:
• Presentation #2
• Homework
• Work on Your Project
• Summary/Analysis of presentation