April 18-Mr Whitman looked at the Watergate scandal under Nixon and how he was pardoned for his crimes
April 19-It was Spark Rally day-students did a Google Classroom Assignment though on the End of the Cold War
April 22-Students finished the Google Classroom Assignment, then most classes began to look at the start of the Civil Rights Movement during WWII
April 23-We
April 24-We finished looking at Brown vs Board of Education. Students saw the experiment given to help show seperate but equal was unequal. Students then watched a clip on Claudette Colvin and did a quickwrite on what made her story different than Rosa Parks. At the end we just looked at the beginning of Rosa Parks and the busses in Montgomery Alabama.
April 25-We went over Rosa Parks experience the day she stayed seated on the bus. This led to the Montgomery Improvement Association calling for a boycott. Leading to a boycott led by MLK. Students looked at newspaper clips from the boycott and how it worked out. We also watched a short clip of Emmitt Till and what happened in between Claudette Colvin and Parks.
April 26-Mr Whitman discussed the integration of central high school in little rock, the sit in movement that started in NC, and the Freedom Rides of 61. There was a quickwrite on the first day of school.
