1/12 and 8.6

American Pageant Chapter 37 Quiz on google classroom/forms

8.6 Daily Video on AP Classroom (absent students should watch)

Period 8: 1945-1980, Topic 6- Early Steps in the Civil Rights Movement (1940's and 1950's)

Student Learning Objective- Explain how and why the Civil Rights movements developed and expanded from 1945-1960



Discussion Question #1- Explain thoroughly the result within the 1950's of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.

Discussion Question #2- What time period and historical situation is similar to this resistance to comply with Federal law?

Discussion Question #3- What is the only way to integrate/desegregate when State Governors, city mayors, police commissioners, etc. disobey federal law?

Discussion Question #4- What caused Civil Rights to be in the focus of national attention in the 1940's, 1950's and on?

Discussion Question #5- What role did the legislative branch play in Civil Rights?

Strom Thurmond's fillibuster

Discussion Question #6- What role did the executive branch play in Civil Rights? (Faubus, Talmadge, Eisenhower, etc.)

Discussion Question #7- What role did the judicial branch play in Civil Rights?

Brown vs. Board of Education (1954)

Browder vs. Gayle (1956)

Hernandez vs. Texas

Upcoming schedule:

Monday, January 15- No School!  Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

Tuesday, January 16- Last day of Quarter 2!  Quarter 2 work deadline

Wednesday, January 17- Midterms

G- 8:00-9:30

F- 10:00-11:30

E- 12:30-2:00

Thursday, January 18- Midterms

D- 8:00-9:30

C- 10:00-11:30

Makeup period (administration makes appointments only)- 12:30-2:00

Friday, January 19- Midterms

B- 8:00-9:30

A- 10:00-11:30 

Makeup period (administration makes appointments only)- 12:30-2:00


What is on our midterm exam?

Period 8, Topics 1-6, American Pageant Chapters 36 and 37

  • Multiple Choice
  • Short Answer Questions
  • Multiple choice and open responses practicing skills such as:
    • Historical situation
    • Intended audience
    • Purpose
    • Point of view
    • limitations of argument
    • counter-arguments
    • continuity
    • change
    • contextualization
    • causation
    • connecting to other time period


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