Week ending April 4th...

Hello April...

EOG's are going to be here before we know it! 

In remediation, students will be doing practice EOG reading passages 2 times a week.  We will go over them together and discuss each one. 

In class:

6C students need to read the rest of Ashes of Roses this weekend.  The final exam will be Tuesday.

I will also give each 6C student a packet for vocabulary.  They will have this packet for 2 weeks.  Then, I will give them a second packet and they will have that one for 2 weeks also.  These packets consist of Poetry Terms and Examples.  Students will be reading and writing copious amounts of poetry this month.

6A and 6B will have new Reading Logs this week.  Each day will require a different task, so I will check them each day Tuesday- Friday for a grade.  

6A and 6B students are working in groups to write a narrative.  I must say, what I've read so far is wonderful!  They are doing such a great job!!

Vocabulary for this week is:

 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.

 

AFTER THIS WEEK, WE WILL BEGIN FREAK THE MIGHTY .  FIND YOUR BOOKS NOW SO YOU HAVE THEM.

ALSO MAKE SURE TO HAVE YOUR NONFICTION BOOK!!!