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February 9, 2014 · 9:44 am

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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· 7:12 am

Civil Rights: Jim Crow & Brown vs Board of Education (1954)

Please go here to access Mr. Wood’s podcasts on the Civil Rights Movement.

Jim Crow Laws in the Southern United States
Go here to watch the Rise and Fall of Jim Crow – Introduction to the documentary by California News Reel.
Go here to find a list of Jim Crow laws legally enforced throughout the southern United States

1954 – Brown vs Board of Education

The Supreme Court Decision Brown vs Board of Education (1954) served as the launching pad for the American Civil Rights Movement. It is the first time, on a nationwide scale, that the United States Federal government landed fully on the side of civil rights for black Americans.

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February 1, 2014 · 6:26 pm

Government Syllabus – Mr. Wood 2014

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January 15, 2014 · 5:52 am

FINAL due dates for Government 2013/14

OK – guys here you go – adjusted due dates for Government class final two weeks. Check links for specific information.

listen to ‘Government – Final two weeks & FINAL EXAM’ on Audioboo

A.C.T! Work – for MP #3 are all individualized. You work on your group selected issue but your grade is YOU ONLY. Your grade for the project in marking period #3 consists of two assignments. Make sure that you run these reflections by me regularly – over and over again. They need to be complete – they count 50% of your ACT MP grade and 50% of your Final.

News Article – actively read and reflected on in the appropriate format.
Letter to your representative. Make sure you use appropriate format.
Turn in group notebook with your two assignment by Tuesday January 21.
Calling Congress 101 – Fri (17), Sat (18), Sun (19).

FINAL Exam Wed January 22 – we will take a CA on the day of the final. This will be taken in the computer lab…it will however not count as the final – like I said it is a Common Assessment. The Final will consist of two parts.