Homework for Week of March 15 - 22

**** NOTE **** It is important for a number of you to turn in last week's HW on Watergate as soon as possible...All other prior grades have been set; however, you may still turn in Watergate HW - to not do so will hurt your GPA significantly, so please turn by Mon. March 22 or email to me during the week of March 15-22. Thank you!


Assignment 1 - Topics and debate questions should have been turned in to Mr. Norm if not done already. Visit debatepedia.com website to work on debate and continue to develop questions by researching. Use create debate link on left side of page to work on debate. You may copy and paste info to the debatepedia site to support each side of the arguments, but if material is copyrighted, you may not do so. Try to study and develop the arguments in your own words. Final debate in completed form on site due Monday MAY 10

Assignment 2 - read the following article link posted below (5 parts) and watch the videos on the Civil Rights movement posted below. Write a brief description of the following:

1. Montgomery Bus Boycott -

2. Rosa Parks -

3. Ralph Abernathy -

4. Medgar Evers -

5. Little Rock Nine -

6. James Meredith -

7. Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman -

8. SNCC -

9. SCLC -

10. Edmund Pettus Bridge -

11. Voting Rights Act 1965 -

12. Ku Klux Klan -

13. Eugene "Bull" Connor -

14. Civil Rights Act 1964 -

15. The Greensboro Four -

16. Freedom Rides of 1961 -

17. Emmett Till -

18. Fanny Lou Hamer -

19. Viola Liuzzo -

20. Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing -

21. Jimmy Lee Jackson -

22. Riots in St. Augustine, Florida -

23. Sheriff Jim Clark -

24. March on Washington 1963 -

25. April 4, 1968 -



Links



http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/civilrights/change.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJk ("I Have a Dream" speech, 1963)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUzzfGrjlmY&feature=related (speech Dr. King made the night before his death)



Extra Credit - Important and easy source of extra points!!!



Read and write a brief summary of the following articles on current issues/court cases:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/03/court-appears-set-to-broaden-gun-rights/


http://blog.heritage.org/2010/03/12/the-constitution-another-victim-of-obamacare/


http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/12/lesbian-teen-sues-force-school-hold-prom/?page=2