Binaries in US History
Who are Hamilton and Jefferson?
What is the House of Representatives?
Court case that ended "separate but equal" and forced desegregation of schools.
The day we usually meet for Book Clubs.
What is Friday?
The complete name of the college our school is located at.
What is San Diego Mesa College?
A time period when wealth was concentrated at the top at the expense of workers.
What is the Gilded Age?
This body of Congress is the jury for the impeachment trial.
What is the Senate?
Name 5 "GOATS" (greatest of all time) showing Black excellence
Who is (answers will vary)?
One group read the autobiography of this controversial Black leader.
Who is Malcolm X?
The 11th Grade Advisors.
Who are Ms. Doyle, Mr. Schiffer and Ms. Wangler?
Act that allowed the government to arrest/deport any male over 14 who was a citizen of a country that was engaged in war w the US.
What was the Alien Act?
Only President to be impeached twice.
Who is Donald Trump?
An escaped slave who became an abolitionist- we read his biography.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
A play by Arthur Miller about the Salem Witch Trials.
What is The Crucible?
Your Humanities teachers next year.
Who are Ms. Baker and Mr. Brandes?
Act that made it illegal in 1798 to print anything bad about the government or be fined/jailed.
What was the Sedition Act?
Three Presidents who have been impeached
Repressive laws and customs used to restrict Black Americans' rights, esp between Civil War and Civil Rights era.
What is Jim Crow?
Title of 2 books that were either fantasy or science fiction.
What is Children of Blood and Bones AND Kindred? (maybe Handmaid's Tale?)
Milestone in many 11th graders' lives.
What is getting a drivers license?
What are political parties?
4 reasons to remove the President from office
What are bribery, treason, high crimes, misdemeanors?
"Agreements" in Congress that kept Blacks as 2nd class citizens. (There were several of these!)
What is a "compromise"?
All 8 books we read in book clubs.
What are: The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Handmaid's Tale, The Vanishing Half, The Crucible
March, Children of Blood & Bone, Kindred, Native Son?
6 new students in our 11th grade Humanities class this year.
Who are Reid, Jordyn, Isaiah, Matthew, Michael and Gabe?