Black History Month

Student Worksheet

Task one:

Those who broke the all-white barrier:
Read the story of Melba Pattillo
http://teacher.scholastic.com/barrier/hwyf/mpbstory/index.htm
Read the story of 30 other trailblazers
before 1900: http://teacher.scholastic.com/barrier/trail/bef1900.htm
1901-1960: http://teacher.scholastic.com/barrier/trail/1901.htm
1960 to today: http://teacher.scholastic.com/barrier/trail/1960.htm

Assignement 1:
write a 100 words essay about:
What would you feel if you were in Melba's place?

Assignement 2:
choose your favourite hero
tell us what he/she did
say why you chose him/her

Task two:

Dr Martin Luther King Jr and the Civil Rights
What was segregation: the Jim Crow Laws
http://www.nps.gov/malu/documents/jim_crow_laws.htm
Watch the video of MLK's most famous rally
http://www.pilotonline.com/millennium/stories9/dcmarch.html
Easy timelines
http://wwwsun.bham.wednet.edu/SWork/MLK%20Web%20Page/MLK%20Web%20Page.html
http://www.pps.k12.or.us/district/depts/itss/buckman/timeline/kingframe.html ]
Timeline of the Civil Rights Movement
http://www.wmich.edu/politics/mlk/
Biography of MLK
http://www.thekingcenter.com/mlk-bio.htm
Listen to the speeches and read the texts
http://www.mlkonline.com/

Assignement three:
take the test at:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/classroom/MLKquiz.html
How much did you score?

Assignement four:
write a 150 words essay about MLK's life and accomplishments

assignement five:
take the scavenger hunt at:
http://users.massed.net/~tstrong/Martin.htm
(sauf questions 7 et 8)
Question 22 à rendre sur copie

Other resources:
http://web.uccs.edu/~history/index/afroam.html