March is here, March is here...

Well, thanks to the snow... we will be doing our Black History Month Lessons in March. 

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

 

6C- YOUR BOOK REPORT BOXES ARE DUE MARCH 6TH

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 3^rd

 

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.