American Literature
We studied this Cyndi Lauper song to better understand how to annotate using a feminist lens.
What is "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"?
This year long project required you to turn your Writing into the Day into a single piece of writing to share.
What is the Writing Project?
OJ is most well-known for breaking records with this NFL football team.
Who are the Buffalo Bills?
Reconstruction began after this important event in US history.
What is the Civil War?
UNC-Charlotte's founder
Bonnie Cone
We studied this Ta-Nehisi Coates book that stated, “Race, is the child of racism, not the father.”
What is Between the World and Me?
This project required you to map out your neighborhood.
What is the Charlotte Project?
OJs lawyer Johnny Cochrane was most well known for this phrase in his closing arguments.
What is "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit."
This massacre caused the destruction of Black Wall Street.
What is the Tulsa Massacre?
Mr. King saw one of these after it bit a hospital worker and escape on to campus. Mr. Czar thought he was having a heart attack.
Who is Carter the Monkey?
"Shut up, Bobby Lee. It's no real pleasure in life."
What is "A Good Man Is Hard To Find"?
This project required you to discover and share who you are writing poetry.
What is the Identity Project?
OJ fled in this vehicle.
What is a white Ford Bronco?
This act of Congress, passed shortly after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, aimed at solving the problems cause by HOLC maps since the 40s.
What is the Fair Housing Act (or FHA)?
This teacher is often called Iron Man.
Who is Tom Ellsworth?
This poem by George Ella Lyon repeats these titular lines from the poem, using metaphors to describe her childhood.
What is "Where I'm From"?
This project required you to conduct interviews to learn about their work, their lives, and their emotions.
What is the Empathy Project?
One of OJs lawyers, who later admitted he thought OJ was guilty, had four children: Kourtney, Kim, Khloe, and Rob.
Who is Robert Kardashian?
Many formerly enslaved people, most of whom were emaciated after Lincoln's declaration, were arrested and charged with this.
What is vagrancy?
Winston and Charlotte.
We studied this play written by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
What is Hamilton?
This project required you to read a book of American Literature and make a documentary (similarly named with the OJ documentary).
What is the Made in America project?
OJ was arrested for kidnapping in this city.
Where is Las Vegas?
The process which isolated people in cities by class, race, and ethnicity is called this.
What is redlining?
The year CEEC opened its doors.
2014