Theories of Change
VOCAB:
An idea or group of ideas that is meant to explain facts or events.
OR
An explaining idea.
What is a theory?
TRUE OR FALSE: José Sarria made change by using illegal strategies.
False!
An unequal and racist system in the 1900s in South Africa that U.S. college students protested using encampments.
What is apartheid?
TRUE OR FALSE: MLK believed anger was important to create change.
True!
The TWO riches social classes in France in the 1700s.
What are the clergy (church) and nobility (king and queen)?
VOCAB:
A large group of people who live together in an organized way.
What is a society?
The type of performances José Sarria used to do. They often involve dressing very femininely or masculinely.
What is drag?
List some activities you might see at a student encampment.
Singing, dancing, playing music, sleeping, creating art, practicing cultural traditions
The protest where people in Montgomery, Alabama stopped using public busses for 13 months.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
The weapon used to behead nobility in the French Revolution.
What is the guillotine?
VOCAB:
A way people are expected to behave. Also, beliefs that most people share.
What is a nrom?
José Sarria was the first gay person to do what?
Run for public office
One of the biggest universities to have a student encampment for Gaza.
What is Columbia University?
Martin Luther King Jr.'s first ever public speech advocating for Black peoples' right to vote.
What is Give us the Ballot?
The event when people living in France took up arms and took over the prison that symbolized the monarchhy's power.
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
Not wearing white to a wedding.
Saying hi when you see someone.
Men holding the door open for women.
How did José Sarria help drag queens avoid getting arrested?
He gave them labels that said "I am a boy" so they couldn't be arrested for "intent to deceive."
The number of student encampments for Gaza in 2024.
What is 121?
The number of books Martin Luther King Jr. published.
What is 65?
What did rich people in France do to poor people to make them want to have a revolution?
They used money from taxes to pay for lavish parties.
VOCAB:
Ideas that explain how society can become different.
What are theories of change?
The number of people who voted for José Sarria when he ran for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
What is 6,000?
The percent of student encampments for Gaza that ended with schools making a deal with their students.
What is 18%?
The reason Martin Luther King Jr. got arrested in 1964.
What is demanding to be served food at a whites-only restaurant?
Philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau's idea that government should be created with the consent (agreement) of the people.
What is a social contract?