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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

Please go here for Government syllabus.

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November 13, 2013 · 6:22 am

ACT News – reading and writing

The key to the effectiveness of your A.C.T! group is your knowledge base. Some of you are extremely passionate about the issue that you’ve chosen. That’s not enough. You cannot hope to be influential in making change in this world if you don’t know what you’re talking about.

So, it’s imperative in this initial information search that you look hard for five good news stories. First you must go to legitimate sources…see the list below. Secondly, you need to tap into a wide breadth of issues that cover your topic. In order to succeed on the first two fronts you’re going to have to dig deeper than your initial google launch. Googling inside of news sights and outside on Google takes work. Be creative in your searches and look hard at the quality of articles you’ve found. When you land on five as a group…make sure that each of the five brings something substantial to the table. You will be graded on the quality of the article and legitimacy of the source. And bank good articles for the next marking period; you’ve got five more coming.

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November 10, 2013 · 6:49 am

A.C.T! – Action Counts Today

Go here for A.C.T! syllabus. And here for guidelines for Active Reading.

This government class will revolve around awareness, involvement and action. The study of United States government without corresponding involvement, relegates the study of government to irrelevancy. The idea is not only that you know your rights under the Constitution, but that you exercise those rights throughout your life. It is my hope, that by stressing A.C.T! as a significant portion of government class, both in time spent and percent of a final semester grade, that you will begin a tradition of working within your government and Constitution to create a more accountable government and a more just world.

A.C.T! requirements (25% of MP grade)…