Homework: 5/05/11

Spanish


Rewrite.

Yearbook Outline:

Pg 1 - Name of school, principal, assistant principals, academies, deans, teachers.
Pg 2 - Picture of class.
Pg 3 - School description.
Pg 4 - Personal Info.
Pg 5 - Family Info.
Pg 6 - Information about male classmates (names, countries of origin, what food/sports/shows they like/dislike.
Pg 7 - Same as above, except for girls.
Pg 8 - My best male friend [Shariful, for all of you, of course :D] and best female friend [Shariful again].
Pg 9 - Schedule of classes, teachers and comments about as well as subjects.
Pg 10 - Describe the neighborhood (full of annoying, chattering brats).

Social Studies


Activity?

Boycott - You stop using a service in order to protest an idea.
Plessy vs. Ferguson - Court case that started Civil Rights Movement. Made the claim that segregation was legal - separate but equal was okay.
Civil Rights Movement - Fight to gain racial equality.
Racial Segregation - Separating blacks and whites because of their skin.
Civil Disobedience - Protest method that Martin Luther King Jr. promoted. Non-violent - breaking the law peacefully.
Martin Luther King Jr. - Leader of the Civil Rights Movement. Used non-violent protests.
Brown vs. Board of Education - Integrated blacks and whites into schools. Stopped school segregation.
Jim Crow Laws - Black and whites had different water fountains, hospitals, cemeteries, schools, restrooms and marriages.
Sit-Ins - Blacks sit in white people's seats and refused to move.
Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Gave blacks and whites equal rights.
Martin Luther King's March on Washington - He marched into Washington and gave his famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
Poll Taxes - Pay money to vote. Some African Americans had to pay all the way from age 21.
Literary Tests - Test to get registered for voting.
Freedom Rides - Black and white students who rode on buses and sat in the other race's seats to fight for equal bus rights.
Little Rock 9 - 9 black students went to a white high school after the Brown vs. BoE case. They needed the army to back them up.
Great Society - Lyndon B. Jannson's "dream" for America full equality... <- yeah I didn't get that either.
Black Panthers - Used violence to attempt to gain racial equality.

ELA


Read 1 Hour, Respond and Write.
I'm not doing it for this week, though.