6A and 6B will "wrap up" mythology and begin studying The Triangle Middle Passage.
Here is there vocabulary for the week. Quiz will be on Thursday.
1. abolitionist- a person who advocated or supported the abolition/end of slavery in the U.S
2. emancipate - to free from bondage
3. proclamation- something that is announced or declared
4. zealot – a member of a radical group
5. yoke- a device used to enclose the head of an animal
6. Quaker- a member of the Religious Society of Friends, a Christian movement who’s main doctrine is the “Inner Light,” or sense of Christ's direct working in the soul. This has led them to reject both formal ministry and all set forms of worship.
7. overseer- supervisor or manager of plantation
8. stereotype – simplified idea of a group of people
9. advocate- to speak or write in favor of
10. fugitive- a person who is fleeing from intolerable circumstances
WE WILL SPEND ONE MORE DAY WORKING ON AUTO/BIO POSTERS. FINAL PROJECT IS DUE ON THURSDAY, MARCH 6TH
WE WILL SPEND ONE MORE DAY WORKING ON AUTO/BIO POSTERS. FINAL PROJECT IS DUE ON THURSDAY, MARCH 6TH
6C- YOUR BOOK REPORT BOXES ARE DUE MARCH 6TH
We will finish the Harlem Renaissance and begin the Civil Rights Movement.
We will finish the Harlem Renaissance and begin the Civil Rights Movement.
Here is your vocabulary . Quiz is on Thursday.
Vocabulary for Civil Rights Monday
March 3rd
1. Jim Crow
- separated blacks from whites in all aspects of public life
2. Segregation
– state of setting someone apart from other people
3. Boycott- ban
that forbids relations with certain groups
4. Solidarity-
individuals with a common interest;
5. Civil disobedience-
disobeying certain laws in non-violent ways in order to make a point
6. Discrimination-
prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things
7. Prejudice
- opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience
8. Ku Klux
Klan - white supremacist organization began after the Civil War of the 1860s.
9. Integration-
combine (one thing) with another
10. Sit-in - occupy
a place as a form of protest
11. Racism - Deeply rooted prejudice which
may be expressed in the idea that one race is superior to another.
12. Civil Rights - The rights each person
has as a citizen. The government can’t
take them away. Most of our civil rights
are in the Bill of Rights.
13. CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) - a
national interracial organization centered in New York that played a large role
in organizing and advising protest demonstrations. It operated on the philosophy of nonviolence.
14. NAACP
(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
this organization is the oldest of
its kind. Their philosophy is that
social change can be brought about by educating the public and by taking action
through the courts. Though educated
upper-class blacks run the organization, it speaks for all blacks. The organization operates on three
levels—national, regional, and local.
15. Freedom Rides - in 1961, CORE
organized a “Freedom Ride”—a bus trip to New Orleans—to test the recent
Virginia court ruling that discrimination against interstate travelers in bus
terminals was illegal. By the time they reached Alabama, they had split into
two buses. A mob attacked one bus,
destroying it with an incendiary bomb.
They passengers barely escaped.
The other bus continued to Birmingham where the passengers were beaten
when they stepped off.
