Rights-Writing Journal What rights do you have as an American citizen? What gives us these rights? How would you react if someone tried to take your rights away? What could you do? Intro to rosa parks, civil rights movement, look at declaration, bill of rights, what if the gov’t tries to take your rights (possibly show intro to Gattaca as example being judged on inherent characteristics)

Civil Rights Powerpoint We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.-- I Have a Dream Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Powerpoint Montgomery Bus Boycott Civil Disobedience Idea of “inherent” inalienable rights, use after intro to rosa parks, american rights Rosa Parks 14th Amendment

Plessy v. Ferguson: separate but equal How “equal” do these schools look? What is your impression of each of the schools? Which would you rather go to, and why? After

Segregated Schools

Brown vs. Board of Ed: Separate is inherently unequal Video link to separate but unequal (show separate but equal, little rock 9, then youtube link, before I have a Dream show Dr. King leads march, if doing poem show Emmett till video) Integration of Little Rock High School, 1957

Poem Analysis- Emmett Till I hear a whistling Through the water. Little Emmett Won't be still. He keeps floating Round the darkness, Edging through The silent chill. Tell me, please, That bedtime story Of the fairy River Boy Who swims forever, Deep in treasures, Necklaced in A coral toy. -James Emanuel Poem Analysis- Emmett Till * In 1955, Till, a fourteen-year-old from Chicago, for  allegedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi, was murdered  by white men who threw his body into the Tallahatchie River.

Claim- the position or opinion you’re trying to prove Making an Argument Argument- taking a position on an issue and providing support using reason Claim- the position or opinion you’re trying to prove Support- reasons and evidence proving claim Rhetorical Devices Repetition- repeating the same word or phrase for emphasis Parallelism- repeating the same grammatical structures to show ideas are related Analogy- comparison between two things with something in common, helps convey abstract ideas Can reference Churchill’s speech:we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender,

Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have a Dream” “…And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character….”