Civil Rights Struggle: Two Approaches

The GOAL of  the Civil Rights Movement was/is "LEGAL EQUALITY /  EQUAL RIGHTS"

Quickly  scan the topic headings and vocab in sections 45.2, 45.3 and 45.5 (Pages 578 - 583) Work with your group to answer overarching question  "What was the common 'Strategy' of groups in this chapter?" (Everyone write it in your notebooks.)

Now, divide the "Sections" up between your group  members. Each member determine adn describe the tactic used in a particular subsection, or two, and share it with your group members. Use the words in blue in your descriptions.(Everyone should have these written in their notebook.)


Quickly scan the topic headings and vocab in sections 46.2 and 46.3  (Pages 592 - 597) Work with your group to answer overarching question  "What was the common 'Strategy' of groups in this chapter?"

Now, divide the "Subsections" up between your group  members. Each member determine the tactic used in a particular subsection and share it with your group members. Use the words in blue in your descriptions.(Everyone should have these written in their notebook.)

Assessment: Write a well organized paragraph comparing the strategies of the people and groups described in Chapter 45 to those in Chapter 46. Use some of the tactics as examples in your paragraph. 
Due Tuesday 5/28 for 3rd and 4th period
Due Wednesday 5/29 for 5th and 8th period
Late work will only be accepted with an excused absence. 
No exceptions

LOCAL COLOR

LOCAL COLOR 

As you watch this documentary jot down some notes about the African American experience in Portland / Oregon during the following eras. These will be valuable notes for your test on finals day as well as some potentially good information for adding to your "Pursuing American Ideals" essay

WWI and before   -   The Great Depression   -   WWII   -   Post WWII   -   Vanport   -   After Vanport

Describe some African American experiences in schools. Be Specific!

What does Otto Rutherford  mean by.. "We had to have a few funerals to solve the problems..."

Think about our overarching question for the year, "How has america lived up to the founding ideals of the declaration of independence" and apply it to the documentary you have just seen.

Portland / Oregon and Racism

Cell Phones away, notebooks out and write one paragraph response to the following... Yeah, we might do music.

Do you think of Portland / Oregon as a racist place? Explain and give examples either way.

POLL

Mystery Doc

Oregon Constitution Exclusion Language

Read  this document (Both sides) carefully and text code it as follows.
1. Underline what you think is the most important sentence.
2. Put a box around what you think is the most important phrase.
3 Circle what you think is the most important word.

Oregon Racial Laws and Events

End of America's Vietnam War

Learning the limits of power presentation/notes here

Personal stories (how did Vietnam affect your family?)

Last night I dremed of peace: the diary of Dang Thuy Tram

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dang_Thuy_Tram

Cold War and Vietnam overview 

Cold War and Vietnam test Monday, May 20th

don't miss it!

How media shaped public opinion on Vietnam

Tues / Weds May 14, 15

here are the

Notes and presentation

The Tipping Point

America Gets Out

What did we learn?

Cold War Test Mon. May 20th

Test review, unit over view Thurs/Fri

Hair and Vietnam!?!? signifier of greater things...

Notes from Monday May 13:
notes & presentation
Q:  How did conflict over the Vietnam War manifest itself in American culture in the late 1960s?   

Q:  How do Americans today express their politics through their culture?  
Cold War & Vietnam test Thurs/Fri

Vietnamese Declaration of Independence - Johnson ups the ante

The Big Picture:  Vietnam - one country.  (Two wars?)

Was there a "disconnect"? What was the effect on ordinary Americans?

Bring notebooks Monday

remember about phones!

here's the presentation from Thurs/Fri

Presentation and Question: Truman's Decision CELL PHONE NOTICE PLEASE READ!

Here it is. CLick HERE to view the presentation

CELL PHONE NOTICE, PLEASE READ:  as important as it is to keep up with your friends, cell phones are a serious distraction in class, and class-time is limited and too valuable to be taken up by repeated requests for cell phones to be put away.  Starting Monday May 13th, please be forewarned that if the bell rings for our American History class to start and your cell phone is out it will be confiscated according to school policy.  Here's the link to that policy, see page 39.  http://www.pps.k12.or.us/schools/lincoln/files/school-lincoln/student_planner_12-13.pdf

Tuesday/Wednesday 5/7&8 Homework

1) start asking your parents/grandparents if the Vietnam War might have affected your family
 2) "All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

 (Haven't we heard this some place before...?)

 It is also the first sentence of the the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence, declared in public in a 1946 public speech in Vietnam by Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh. Read the whole text (not long) and bring one question to class here's the text of the declaration:

  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1945vietnam.html