Today students wrote about actions we need to take to realize the dream.
Ideas:
- stand up for yourself & others
- recognize differing feelings and beliefs
- realize we are all the same
- realize we are all different
- be aware of what’s happening around you
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of “I Have A Dream”
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kids and pets the best combinations
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teachers poem
teacher’s a person
a master at learning
a teacher, a person
a person I know
a person who believes
in me like no one else
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Our Interview of Mr. Chambers Sr: A local Civil Rights Leader
Today we met Marvin Chambers. He was a local Civil Rights leader, working to change segregation in our town. He is also the grandfather of one of our classmates. We learned that he helped start ASCORE, which stands for Avl Student Congress of Racial Equality. ASCORE changed the segregation of our town.
Students remembered these comments from his visit:
We learned that black schools always got hand-me-down books.
We learned that they couldn’t go out on the street by themselves, if they were a black.
5% of the people made the other 95% suffer.
Click on the movie below to view clips from the interview.
Grandparent’s Day
We studied courageous leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. Students prepared reader’s theater performanced based MLK Jr and Shirley Chisholm. They did a great job, don’t you think?