Welcome Back!
I hope you all had an enjoyable break with your families.
We are starting back this week with work on the civil rights movement (a little more modern historical look- we will get back to colonial times next week) and we are continuing our work with fractions. A reminder that science fair proposals are due this WEDNESDAY!!!
If you lost proposal hand out it should include:
Project Title:
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Purpose/Problem Statement:
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Investigative
topic/Question: (What I want to find
out?):
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Hypothesis (What I
think the answer to my question will be):
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Parent Signature:
___________________ Date:
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Teacher Approval :
_____________________ Date: _____________
Civil Rights Vocabulary
Amendment
– a change made
or offered in a law or bill by addition, omission, or alteration of language.
Desegregate
– to abolish
racial segregation.
Disenfranchise
– to take any
right or privilege away from.
Equality
– the condition
or quality of being equal; exact likeness in amount, size, value or rank.
Freedom Rider-a
person who challenged racial laws in the American South in the 1960s,
originally by refusing to abide by the laws designating that seating in buses
be segregated by race.
Integration
– the inclusion
of people of all races on an equal basis in neighborhoods, schools, parks, or
other facilities.
Jim
Crow – discrimination
against Negroes.
Non-violence
(Non-violence movement) – a
political or philosophical belief based on peaceful methods to achieve any
goal; opposite to any form of violence.
Nullify
– to make of no
effect; destroy; cancel; wipe out.
Protest
– a statement
that denies or objects strongly.
Rebellion
– resistance
against any power or restriction.
Rights
– The power or
privilege to which one is justly entitled.
Segregation
– separation
from others; setting apart; isolation.
Separate
but Equal –
having to do with a policy of racial segregation between African Americans and
whites, as in education, employment, or transportation, by providing ostensibly
equal facilities for all.
Sit-ins
– a form of
protest in which a group of people enter and remain seated for a long period of
time in a public place.
Supreme
Court – the highest
court in the United States, consisting of the Chief Justice and eight associate
justices.
Monday- write definitions (it is okay to
shorten/use your own words)
Tuesday- choose 10 words to write detailed
sentences that use the word correctly and show understanding
Wednesday- crossword puzzle
Thursday- study for vocab quiz
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