Classroom Routines
This is what to do when you are late to class (Demonstrate as a group)
What is walk in quietly, sign in, scan the room, join the group?
Allowing people of different races to participate or be included.
What is integration?
What is Pike County, Alabama?
I am related to the main character. I took him on a road trip to Buffalo, New York.
Who is Uncle Otis?
To not allow people of different races to be together.
What is segregated?
What is raise your hand?
A way of behaving that shows seriousness and self-control.
What is dignity?
This Supreme Court decision struck down the doctrine of Plessy vs. Ferguson "separate but equal" and declared that all schools must be integrated.
What is Brown vs. the Board of Education?
I am the protagonist of the story. I am the Congressman for the Georgia's 5th district and a lifelong Civil Rights activist.
Who is John Lewis?
A person accused of a crime in a court of law.
What is defendants?
This is how we start class every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
What is a Do Now?
The people who regularly attend a religious service
What is congregation?
The murder of an innocent black boy in 1955 was heavily shown in the media all over the United States and World. It inspired many people to take action for Civil Rights.
What is the murder of Emmett Till?
I am the person whose inauguration the main character attended in 2009. Bonus point if you can say which # president I am.
Who is President Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States?
A way of believing what is right and wrong for humans to do.
What is moral philosophy?
These are the things you need for class each day.
What are a pencil, a purple notebook, your planner, your March book, and your independent reading book?
Something that is expensive and not necessary.
What is luxury?
This is a non-violent protest that Civil Rights activists participated in.
What is a lunch counter sit-in?
I am the person who helped inspire the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 by not giving up my seat on the bus to a white man. I remained friends with John Lewis throughout my life because we were both actively involved in Civil Rights activism.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Unhappy about a situation and wanting change.
What is restless?
What are be silent, stay in one seat, and read the whole time?
Not allowed by the U.S. Constitution.
What is unconstitutional?
This is an event during which authorities told protestors they were unlawfully assembling, even though they were following the law and staying on the sidewalk.
What is the Edmund Pettus Bridge protest?
I encouraged John to integrate Troy State, even though it would be dangerous. I offered the support of my lawyer, Jim Lawson, to provide training in non-violent protest and legal aid.
Who is Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
To get rid of.
What is eradicate?