Eric Garner

1. Do Now | Read the following press conference by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio the morning after the Staten Island grand jury decision:


“It’s a very emotional day for our city. It’s a very painful day for so many New Yorkers. That is the core reality. So many people in this city are feeling pain right now. And we’re grieving, again.”
What the Mayor is referring to? Why was it an emotional day for the city?
What do you know about what happened to Eric Garner this summer?
What do you know about the grand jury decision in the case?


2. Open new document and title: Eric Garner Case

3. Powerpoint

4. Footage from the incident
 

5. Think-Pair-Share. How do you feel about the footage you've just seen?

6. What is the problem? What do we do?

Study, Discuss, & some Spoken Word.

1. Study | Geography of the United States.

2. Discussion | What happened in the video Mon/Tues? How has racial discrimination in higher education changed over time? What does it look like now? What is the K-12 role? How do these issues relate to the way statics indicate our society treats our minority children?

3. Spoken Word | Javon Johnson

Seven Decades of Race and Higher Ed

Good Morning Tributes,

I had an emergency come up and had to take the day off. In your feedback from last unit, you asked if we could have an accompanying move as we study Ferguson, Civil Rights and Race equality in the United States. So, today seems like a great day for Admissions on Trial: Seven Decades of Race and Higher Education!

Email me if there's an issue. I should see it on my phone pretty quickly.

Background:
Admissions on Trial: Seven Decades of Race and Higher Education delves into the history behind Fisher v. Texas, one of the most-watched Supreme Court cases to negotiate race and access to higher education. The film, produced by KLRU in Austin Texas, weaves anecdotes and expertise of students, university admissions personnel, activists, lawyers and others into a framework to understand the complexities of Affirmative Action, diversity and equality, and the effects of Fisher v. Texas on higher education in the future.

Intro to Ferguson

1. Sheppard Geography Games | Since we are going to study Ferguson, take 20 minutes to study the Geography of the United States.

2. Google Moderator | Temperature Check 

• What do you know about what happened in Ferguson, Missouri, in August? 
• Do you know the name Michael Brown? What do you know about him? What happened to him? 
• What has happened in Ferguson since then? 
• Where are things at now?

3. Timeline of Events in Ferguson, Missouri.

4. Video | "Peaceful Protest spill into Chaos"


5. Think-Pair-Share | How do you feel about the events in Ferguson?

6. Group Read & Discussion |

Each group will be assigned a reading from Fox News, The Guardian and The Nation, then discuss the information, guided by the questions below each excerpt. In 10-15 minutes we will reconvene the whole class

7. Whole Class Discussion | Discuss what we read and talked about in our small groups. Think about our readings in the context of:

• racial disparity and power
• segregation
• profiling
• discrimination
• other related issues that you can think of

Unit Selection Results | Charlie Hebdo Briefing

1. Unit Selection Results | Here's what you want to learn next:

2. We will begin our Ferguson tomorrow. In the meantime, we will do Charlie Hebdo brief for those of you who were interested in the shooting that happened in France this month: 

Day of, Jan 7th 2015, News Coverage

3. Discussion: 

• The Charlie Hebdo covers that can be considered offensive to Islam
• Public-at-Large response and artist response
• Islamic protection against idolatry of Muhammad, by not permitting images of The Prophet

4. Artist Solidarity

5. Discussion: How should Charlie Hebdo's respond?

6. Charlie Hebdo Response

7. Discussion: 

• Use of Muhammad in the Media-- Freedom of Speech or Religious Persecution?
• What do we think about Charlie Hebdo's response?

Geography Review & Next Unit Selection

1. Sheppard Geography Games | Review any continent you feel weak in-- Africa, Europe, Middle East. If you're solid on those, you can start on North America/United States.

2. Exit Slip & Next Unit Survey

Goal Setting | Every Revolution Begins with a Spark

Step 1: DO NOW | Finish up your 2 stanza rewrite of We Didn't Start the Fire... aka Catching Fire ;)

Helpful hints:

• Make a list of things you want to accomplish, places you'll visit, people you'll meet, hobbies/passions you want to undertake.
• Pick a stanza and count out the syllables, find the Rhyme scheme.
• Ms. Kelly's 1 stanza example:
  
  
  Speak more, TEDx, Startup, Edtech
  Archery, Traveling, Open my own Company,
  Have kids, provide for, help my parents, take the floor
  All children, equal ed, one day, make it big.
  
  

Step 2: POST | your version in today's comment section.

Step 3: CHECK | out other people's versions. Give at least 3 positive comments to 3 other students.

Step 4: QUIZLET | Review vocab from semester one. At the end of class, we'll do team Jeopardy to make sure we are strong with our content and ready to move forward this semester! :)

Step 5:  JEOPARDY | Semester 1 Review

• Agree on a team name
• Team who picks gets 20 seconds to answer
• If your team is wrong/incomplete, question opens up for all teams.

Happy New Year | We Didn't Start the Fire

1. DO NOW | Tell me 3 things you accomplished/are proud of in 2014.

2. LYRICS | Make a copy.  The lyrics of this song refer to headline events between 1949 to 1989. As we listen to the song, highlight the events or people you recognize on your document.

3. VIDEO | We Didn't Start the Fire

4. DISCUSSION | What events or people you recognize?

5. REFLECT | Think about your life over the last 10 years? What’s been going on in that’s noteworthy?

6. HOMEWORK |  Imagine It's 2025. What events, people, and places have transpired in your life? When you see the person next to you for the first time in a decade, what will you tell them when they ask, "So uh, what've you been up to since High School?"

Write at least two verses of your own version of Billy Joel’s ” We Didn’t Start the Fire ”... perhaps one about Catching Fire? Speading change? What will be sung about your accomplishments.

It must follow the rhythm and rhyme scheme of the original song. So feel free to play it over and over! :)