February 2, 2010

President Obama has asked

you to suggest priorities for
the country for the next ten
years. What would they be?
Ending the war? Winning the
war? Schools? Jobs? The
environment? What should
the President concentrate on
and why?
Homework:  Before the modern
civil rights era,
public places came
in two kinds – white
and “colored.” On
your way home,
make a list of all the
public places you
pass that might
have had a whites
only section
Glory Worksheet:
 Review it
 Ask questions
over what we
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 Turn it in
Reading
 Read the story by
twain and answer
the questions on
an exit ticket
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do not
understand
 Work in groups
Reading - Twain
 Was Twain
sympathetic to Aunt
Rachel? Why?
 Do you think his
readers were surprised
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 Was the use of dialect

effective or not?
Explain your answer
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“only” signs
“only” signs
 Ezell A. Blair,
Sit - in

Jr. (now
Jibreel
Khazan),
Franklin E.
McCain,
Joseph A.
McNeil, and
David L.
Richmond
leave the
Woolworth
store after
the first sit-in
on February
1, 1960.
Lunch counter
desegregation
 They did not have
any direction from
anyone higher up –
they just decided to
do it
 They were all college
students
 Eventually, it worked
Others followed
Sit in’s started
happening all over the
country
The lunch counter has been
preserved
 Reflection paper
on the sit – ins
Class work:
 Have you heard
of nonviolence
before?
 Did this make you
respect
nonviolence
more?
 Will you now
consider acting
nonviolently?
Mini Poster on the sit -
in’s
1 to 2
pictures
 3 to 5 facts
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 Be creative