Thursday, January 22, 2015

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

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