The in-class assessment:
Please read and annotate the first packet THEN read and annotate Captain Preston's testimony in the second packet below.
The in-class assessment:
Please read and annotate the first packet THEN read and annotate Captain Preston's testimony in the second packet below.
Please complete this worksheet using the slides below.
If you need to view the slides full-screen, check out the presentation below:
Can your notes "beat the Teach'?"
Due next class:
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Pre-writing chart. Make a copy in Google docs here.
Essay prompt and rubric. Make a copy here.
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The study guide is here. It will make a copy and then you can fill it out and print it.
You can access the film here. Or below:
The original:
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Click here for an editable Google doc.
By the end of this unit you should be able to answer the following questions:
Class notes 9.17.2021
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>>Click here to contribute<<. Please stay on your own slide and feel free to create a new slide, if necessary. Be prepared to present your slide in class. DUE ???
Then please complete the second part of this assessment: the writing (see below).
Need to review the notes? Look below!
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https://padlet.com/boloss/questions-about-9-11-u32g24w5tbvyhy50
Remember why asking questions is one of our classroom norms:
Please fill out this debriefing document. Feel free to use your interpretation of the "Letter to my Father" video to inform your responses.
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If you missed the film, you can Watch it online: CLICK HERE.
Here is a link to the study guide as a Google Doc.
Last year I was able to meet Jess at a book-signing and share student interpretations with them. This year, I plan to connect again at a different photography event and share what you wrote.
Various images and videos I found in his place. Click image below:
DEBRIEF: click here
]]>Is America an empire? To help answer that unit question, we will analyze the following work of art:
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The following source may help you in describing what life was like inside of Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP), also known as Parchman Farm.
And/or watch an 18-minute excerpt from American Experience: Freedom Riders by clicking the image below:
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Please complete for our next class:
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This is an semi-ANONYMOUS survey, so feel free to be as honest as possible. This will make more sense once you have seen the assessment for John Dolan, the young Freedom Rider working with CORE.
Think about the "bump back" mentioned in Ellison's Invisible Man. What then were the proximate causes of the legislative/policy changes enacted in and by the United States during the the mid-1960s? As you watch the film, Eyes on the Prize: "Ain't Scared of Your Jails" (linked below), fill in the study guide with specific details from each technique used by activists:
Given the stakes, why not give it a try? Start with this NPR article. Click the image below for the original challenge put out by the New York Times:
And finally, here is an excerpt from my conversation with Google's AI bot.
