Monday, April 08, 2013

April 8


Most of today's class was spent watching Episode 4 "No Easy Walk (1961-1963)" from the PBS series "Eyes on the Prize". Your answers to this episode's questions are due tomorrow, as is your U.S. Civil Rights Movement Assignment. You will have a Civil Rights Movement Test on Monday, April 15th. You can find the study guide for this test below. Also next week, on Thursday, April 18th you will be writing a Paper 3 on the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.

Here are some possible questions from previous IB Exams:
  • What were the successes of the civil rights movement from 1950-1964 and how were those successes obtained?
  • What were the successes and failures of the civil rights movement between 1954 and 1964?
  • Explain the development of the civil rights movement in the 1950’s.
  • To what degree had it achieved its objectives by the time of the March on Washington in 1963?
  • How were the philosophies and tactics of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X different and what caused those differences?
  • Why had the civil rights movement come to dominate national attention by 1964?
  • What impact did the Black Power Movement have on the Civil Rights Movement?
  • Compare and contrast the strategies of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.
  • What factors contributed to the urban riots post 1964?
  • The civil rights movement had achieved most of its basic goals by 1965. To what degree do agree with that statement?
  • Overall would you characterize the civil rights movement as a unified or dis-unified movement?
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of the NAACP’s strategy from 1950-1968.

Most of today's class was spent writing your Unit 2 WRA I. Please don't forget that you have your Chapter 5 Test tomorrow, please see the study guide here (scroll down to find it). You also have your Nazi Germany Quiz on Wednesday, please check out the study guide here (scroll down to find it).

The entire class period today was spent writing your Chapter 5-6 Test. We'll begin our examination of the Holocaust tomorrow.

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