Below I have organized the layout of ACT (Action Counts Today) inside of a Blendspace creation. I think this will help you to better organize yourselves. Also, go here to follow guidelines for creation of your own Blendspace and Audioboo podcast. Good luck…Change the world!
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ACT / Action Counts Today – Change the World
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Civil Rights Blendspace
Go here for Mr.Wood’s podcasts defining the Civil Rights Movement.
In the following Blendspace I have linked 20 events for our study of the American Civil Rights Movement beginning with Amendment 14. We will touch briefly on some, and dig in deep on others. For you to gain a thorough understanding of this critical period in American History and American Government, watch (and read) each of the following.
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Blendspace and Audioboo
Blendspace and Audio boo are great ways to organize yourself and your message and communicate with those in common thought. Let’s take a look at each, and how they can best serve your cause.
Go here for link to Blendspace. Set up your own account, and play around with the site. It’s really user friendly and simple to work around. Take a look at couple of Mr. Wood’s creations…it’ll give you an idea of what works and what doesn’t work.
- Searching for Sugarman – go here
- Pussy Riot – go here
- American Civil Rights Movement – go here Continue reading
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Civil Rights – Two and Two / Blendspace Survey
Assignment due posted to Google docs by 11:59 PM Wednesday February 26. One posting per group. Bring a hard copy to class (one per student) on Thursday. Fifty point assignment.
We’ve spent the Marking Period looking closely at US Citizens rights protected under the Constitution; we’ve concentrated on Amendment 14 and the rights (or lack there of) for Southern black citizens. We’ve also looked closely at how the Supreme Court dealt with these rights in the issuance of two landmark decisions – Plessy vs Fergusen (1896) and Brown vs Board of Education (1954).
The Brown decision launches the Civil Rights Movement. Without it, there’s no legal basis for the non-violent movement to reach success in the courts. For it to change American society success in the courts was essential. What I want you to do now – is survey pieces of the movement that I’ve linked in the Blendspace below. Each of the links – represents a significant event. With a partner choose two (thirty minutes on each) of those posted below and do the following:
- Watch it and talk about it
- Make notations on everything that you learned
- Evaluate the event thru Amendment 14 (what was its effect?)
- Evaluate the event thru Brown v Board (what was its effect?)
- Turn in your posted notes to Mr. Wood on Google Docs
- Bring a hard copy to class on Thursday. Be ready to talk.
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Civil Rights – Student Event Presentations
Please go here to access Mr. Wood’s podcasts on the Civil Rights Movement.
I have used the website Blendspace to organize media access to the following events of the American Civil Rights movement. I will split the class into groups of three and four. Each group will have one day to organize themselves on an assigned events below. Begin with the Blendspace video and continue online to educate yourself and your partners further. I will cover each of these in class in the next two weeks. Your group will be together at the front of the room, clarifying the event. Your group will earn a fifty point homework grade based the following:
- Knowledge of the event – I’ll ask questions for you to clarify.
- The video from Blendspace – walk us through it.
- Specific significance of Amendment 14 in regard to your issue.
- Specific significance of Brown v Board in regard to your issue.
- Specific significance of Amendment 1 in regard to your issue.
- Specific significance of Amendment 10 in regard to your issue.
- I will ask questions of ALL group members. So educate one another
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