US History

Weber

Activator

• 1. What is racism? • 2. Describe a time when people treated you differently,

or when you felt uncomfortable, because of your race. • 3. What role did race play in the election? Do you think

the race of the candidates affected the way people voted?

• 4. What about the race of the voters? Does it matter? Why or why not?

• 5. Why do you think we have not had a Black, Latino, Asian, or Female president until now?

Agenda

• Activator, agenda, and objective (15 minutes)• Unit 4 overview and essential questions (10

minutes)• Stereotypes in videogames and girl like me (15

minutes)• Socratic Seminar Discussion (30-45 minutes)• KKK and 1920s lynchings and reflection (15

minutes)• Exit ticket and homework (5-10 minutes)

Objective

• All students will…• Make connections between issues of race and

racism in the U.S. in the 1920s and today.• 11.5.2 Students analyze the attacks on Civil

Liberties 1900-1920 and how people responded.

Introductions

• Unit 4: “The Roaring 1920s”• This unit is about a cultural change in the U.S.

following her rise to power at the end of the century. We will focus on the 1920s and study topics such as: reactionary white racism and attacks on civil liberties; people organizing against such attacks; the Harlem Renaissance and African American artist identity; women’s rights and the passage of the 19th amendment allowing women to vote.

Essential Questions

• 1. How did people organize to form movements to fight against racism and the destruction of their civil liberties?

• 2. How did the Harlem Renaissance shape American culture and counter-culture and forge an identity for African Americans?

• 3. How did women win the right to vote and struggle against sexism in American society?

Socratic Seminar Discussion

• We are going to watch two video clips and then have a structured inside/outside circle discussion based on a focus question.

• The outside circle will be observing how the discussion goes looking for specific things and then we will switch.

• Please write down the following questions in your notebooks…

• 1. how many times did each person speak?• 2. which students started the conversation?• 3. how often does the group get off topic?• 4. how many people make reference to the focus question?• 5. how speaks most – girls or boys?• 6. which comments moved the conversation forward – got

people to react?• 7. what body language did you see? Gestures.• 8. how do people disagree? Politely?• 9. does anyone seem nervous or unwilling to participate?• 10. do any students encourage other students?

Seminar questions

Focus Questions

1. How do the racist stereotypes we saw discussed in “Stereotypes in videogames” and “Girl Like Me” affect American society?

2. Does the past shape the present?

How we understand the past affects our identity in the present

• "The events which transpired five thousand years ago; five years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes from now; five years from now or five thousand years from now. All history is a current event.”

-Dr John Henrik Clarke

Ku Klux Klan: 1920s Lynchings

A Lynching consisted of:1. A public notice to other whites in near

by towns so they could come and watch.

2. Huge spectacle often with thousands of people watching.

3. Burning the victims, usually male, at a stake, after being exposed to hours of wrathful pain known as “surgery below the belt.”

4. Observers took parts of the mutilated bodies as souvenirs and took pictures to make post-cards.

All of the following images are from a site called www.maafa.org made by Milford Plaines and dedicated to all those who hate injustice, misery, and ignorance. He speaks of the need to understand difficult histories and not forget the past.

"Waiting for the show to start” John Hartfield - Ellisville, Mississippi -- June 26,1919 2:30 p.m.

Reflection

• Please write ½ to ¾ page reaction reflecting on what you saw and connecting it to the first standard in Unit 4 as you understand it…

Reasons for KKK Lynchings?

- Ignorance, fear, hatred, dehumanization of the “other” during slavery…

- One story: Emmitt Till was 14 years old when he was murdered for supposedly whistling at a white woman. He was shot in the head, his eyes were gouged out, and his head was smashed in.

- KKK’s favorite methods of intimidation: burning crosses on lawns and houses and hanging people publically.

- Human beings have the capacity for incredible evil or incredible good. What factors lead to one result of the other…

Homework: Due Wednesday 11/12• 1. Go to www.understandingprejudice.org and take the survey.• 2. Go to www.myspace.com/stereotypesinvideogames and

comment on his blog (I will be checking so if you don’t use your name please tell me what name you do use).

• 3. Watch one of the following movies and write a 1-2 page movie review.

• Summary should include 4 sections: (1) what I learned, (2) questions it raised, (3) things I disagreed with, (4) conclusion.

– Birth of a nation (1915).– The Jazz Singer (1927)– Bamboozled by Spike Lee – Ethnic Notions– Girl Like Me

Where we are headed

• Birth of a nation, the jazz singer, racism Socratic seminar

• Palmer raids, KKK, Jim Crow, Maafa• Social justice movements response (poster projects due

11/19)• Harlem Renaissance• Social justice presentations • Women’s rights• Political context• Debate

Homework: Due Wednesday 11/12• 1. Go to www.understandingprejudice.org and take the survey.• 2. Go to www.myspace.com/stereotypesinvideogames and

comment on his blog (I will be checking so if you don’t use your name please tell me what name you do use).

• 3. Watch one of the following movies and write a 1-2 page movie review.

• Summary should include 4 sections: (1) what I learned, (2) questions it raised, (3) things I disagreed with, (4) conclusion.

– Birth of a nation (1915).– The Jazz Singer (1927)– Bamboozled by Spike Lee – Ethnic Notions– Girl Like Me

Homework

• Watch one of the following movies and write a 1-2 page summary due 11/12.

• Summary should include 4 sections: (1) what I learned, (2) questions it raised, (3) things I disagreed with, (4) conclusion.

• Movies: – Birth of a nation (1915).– The Jazz Singer (1927)– Bamboozled by Spike Lee – Ethnic Notions