Who Runs YOur Streets: Day #3

Writing Prompt and Turn in Homework
Do you feel having a person of color as president will make life better for people of color?
Does it matter the politics of the person or just the skin color?

Share Out.

Webquest Malcolm X:
Click on the following link about Malcolm X and answer the following:
1. When was Malcolm born, when did he die?
2. How did he die?
3. Based upon this "Malcolm X Clip #2"
Why was Malcolm X important to the world?


Watch the following Ballot or the Bullet- by Malcolm X
Post Video
What two sentences stood out to you most and why?
Would you agree with the sentiment (ideas) that Malcolm speaks?

Read Handout and Project.
Select 6 Paragraphs that stood out to you.
You will make an Imovie that details those six paragraphs
Pick two sentences per paragraph and two images per paragraph.
Create an IMovie using the excerpts from the video, images from history, the U.S., and the world as it relates to the speech.

Who Runs the Streets- Day 2

Writing Prompt: (2L)
Who do you feel is more responsible for the problems in the U.S.A., the president or Congress (the people who make and pass laws)? Why?

1. Share Out Homework: (2R)
Listener: (Write down 2 statements that stood out to you from your partner and why.)

2. Word Bank: (2R)
Search and define the following words:
(For each word, write the dictionary definition, then paraphrase with your own definition)
Government
Direct Democracy
Participatory Democracy
Monarchy
Autocracy
Anarchy
Oligarchy
Human Right
Civil Right
Dictatorship
3/5 Clause
Citizen
Electoral College

3. Electoral College Dialogue (2R)
Click on Boondocks Cartooon
Discussion:
Answer the following:
What does the Boondocks’s Huey feel about the Electoral College? Do you agree? Disagree?
What does Huey feel about democracy?
Do you agree or disagree with his statement in the middle of the second cartoon?

4. What to the Slave is the 4th of July:
Excerpt from Frederick Doulgass Speech
1. What was your initial reaction to this speech?
2. Would you agree or disagree with Douglass? Why?

5. S.I..L.T. or S.I.C.A.

6. . Homework:
Huey of the Boondocks is not the first character to criticize the electoral college, voting, or patriotism. Your homework tonight is to read the following excerpt from Frederick Douglas’s: “What to the Slave is Your Fourth of July". After reading. draw a picture that either represents Frederick Douglas’s view of the 4th of July, your own, or compare and contrast the two.

(for excerpt read by James Earl Jones click here

Who Runs The Streets In Your Neighborhood- Day 1

Goal:
To evaluate, take, and defend positions on the scope 7 limits of rights and obligations as democratic citizens, the relationships among them, and how they are secured.

Writing Prompt: (1L)
Who runs the streets in your neighborhood? How do they "run" them?

Group work: Butcher Paper
List all the problems that exist in your community on the paper given
(i.e. police violence, homeless, etc)
Share Out

Media Literacy (1R)
In the following video, there are three characters who are facing problems in their life and community. List the problems each character is facing (i.e. eviction, war..)

Eminem's Mosh

Character #1 (Young Black Man:)
Character #2 (Young White Soldier)
Character #3 (Young Mother)

Written Response:
What lyric or image stood out to you most?
If you could make your own end to the video, what would you create?

Eminem's Mosh #2

Written Response:
Which ending do you feel is more effective and why?

S.I.L.T. or S.I.C.A.
Something I Learned Today or Something I'm Confused About

Homework:
Government is the way people decide the rules and responsiblities of individuals and institutions to a community. Your family is it's own government.
Tonight, you will interview a parent or guardian how they define government and decmoracy?
Ask them what they feel about the government? Do they trust them? Fear them? Appreciate them?

After the interview, write a paragraph of what government means to you? How does they address problems, or do they?

Two Paragraphs minimum due Thursday.

From Streets to the System

This course is designed to address the issues in our community and how they relate to an individual's power and a institution's responsibilty.

Description:
Government is a high level class where you will learn and evolve your ability to debate issues critical to the health of you, your loved ones, and your community. We will examine current laws, pending legislation, and their effect on various communities. A focal point of our class will be a critical examination of the Constitution, the Bill of rights, and the current state of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government.

Your responsibility in class will be to learn the rights guaranteed you as a human being, parallel them to those offered you as a citizen, and the process to undertake when those rights are violated. You will be expected to debate various points of view and dialogue over multiple issues being examined by the current judicial system.

Guiding Questions:
What are basic human rights guaranteed all people regardless of citizenry?
How have these rights been challenged or denied to certain groups?
What ways has the law has been used to maintain un-just systems of power?
What is the responsibility of a community in a true democratic society?