1.  Hope you enjoyed your 3 day weekend  Do now: Make sure you are sitting where you did Friday. Make sure you filled out a handbook sign-off card.  Dr. King debrief ( I need 1 or 2 people to hand back the paper from Friday)  Cell phone policy

2.  #1 He is describing the U.S.A. as an unpleasant place to be for African Americans in 1963. Compares segregation to slavery.  #2 Tone – You guys did a pretty good job describing his tone; however, I would not have described it as ‘happy’  #3 Who was his audience? Simply the 250,000 people there? Only the people that supported him? The entire United States? Those that opposed desegregation?

3.  # 4: His message was to immediately end segregation…no “gradualism”  #5: Anyone think that he didn’t get his point across clearly?  #6: Transformational change?  The Civil Rights Act of 1964, enacted July 2, 1964, is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States [1] that outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities, and women. [2] It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public (known as "public accommodations").civil rightsUnited States [1] [2]racial segregation

4.  Roughly, 67% of the groups focused on revising the school’s cell phone policy.  Today, you are going to offer a proposal for the alternation of the school’s cell phone policy.  You are to brainstorm at least 3 ways to make the policy better.  Getting rid of the policy is not an appropriate suggestion.  You must think why we have the policy in the first place.

5.  Pg. 48 (b) “Possession of unauthorized pagers or cellular telephones will result in disciplinary action. Such pagers and cellular telephones will be confiscated.”  Our ultimate goal is to draft a persuasive class letter to submit to Principals Golden and Brown, in hopes of revising this policy.