Monday, May 9, 2016

Who Am I? Introduction to the Civil Rights Movement

Today we continued to discuss how individual identities shape the way we understand history. We read through a chapter in Beverly Daniel Tatum's work, "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria," and responded to some quotes from the text.

We then introduced the Civil Rights Movement by dramatizing "separate but equal" learning conditions with a Civil Rights Pre-Test. Much of our introduction centered on the following guiding question of the unit, "What is freedom?"

We watched and discussed this clip from Selma and analyzed "what is freedom" from the perspective of Oprah Winfrey's character.