1. Civil Rights Trading Card Investigate

2. Instructions  If you have curly or blond hair please log off, take your stuff to the front of the room and have a seat.

3. Hypothesis  An idea or explanation that you test through study and experimentation.  An EDUCATED guess about how things work.  Phrased like:  If I do ____________ then ________will happen.

4. Hypothesis  Your task is to generate a hypothesis based on what the United States would be like today if the Civil Rights Movement NEVER took place.  Your hypothesis will look something like this…  If the Civil Rights Movement never took place then …  Rules  You have EXACTLY 8 minutes to work on answering this question.  Your response needs to list at least 3 ways that the United States would be different today.  You may collaborate but students who are sitting in chairs are not allowed to work with students on the ground.  If you are sitting at a computer you are allowed to use the Internet for research.

5. What you need to know…  For you to have an ‘educated’ guess you need to be educated.  What do you need to know before you can come up with a good hypothesis for the previous question?  What the Civil Rights Movement was.  What was life like in the United States before the Civil Rights Movement.  What was life like in the United States after the Civil Rights Movement.

6. Instructions  Please create a new MS Word document.  Place name, date, and period in the upper right hand corner (use a header).  Title this document ‘Civil Rights’  Use an outline (or numbered list) to number each of your responses.  Answer each question in using complete sentences and please pay attention to your grammar.  For those of you on the floor, please do this on a piece of paper.

7. Question 1  Are all men and women created equally?

8. Question 2  Should all men and women be treated equally?

9. Question 3  Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?

10. Question 4  Who is Rosa Parks?

11. Question 5  Who is Malcolm X?

12. Question 6  Who is Thurgood Marshall?

13. Question 7  What do all of these people have in common?

14. Question 8  What is the Civil Rights Movement?

15. Question 9  Define integration?

16. Question 10  Define segregation?

17. Question 11  When did slavery end?