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Civil Rights Unit

We will begin the Civil Rights Unit on Monday. This weekend, research your assigned role (and read over the handouts) for the role play exercise. Consider the following:

  • Why did the group (and your person specifically) choose to act the way they did?
  • Was the project successful?
    • If not, how could it have been?
    • If so, why?
  • Print any important material on your person to share with the class.

Begin reading Thoreau's "On Civil Disobedience." Print it out, and begin annotating as we have been doing with King's letter. Keep in mind the following:

  • Why did Thoreau write this piece?
  • What is "civil disobedience"?
  • Who is his intended audience?
  • What are his main points?

    And, as always,

  • Highlight his uses of ethos, pathos, and logos
  • Mark any T-DIDLS passages that you recognize

Here is an excellent resource on King. It is an interactive timeline of his life. It includes speeches (audio and text; listen to the audio sections to help you understand what made him such an inspiring speaker) and a few of his writings. Another, from the same group, is an encyclopedia of his life and the events surrounding the movement.

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Anonymous said... October 6, 2007 at 12:57 PM

Since I wasn't there on Friday could you explain a little bit on what's going on? What should I be doing?

JStallings said... October 6, 2007 at 3:17 PM

We are reading a set of papers over Project C from April 1963 in Alabama (the events that led to MLK writing "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
Everyone chose parts to play in a discussion that we will have on Monday. Since I cannot get the papers to you, and we have a spot open under Thoreau (I know, he was only there in spirit), you can join Taylor W and Saxon in reading "On Civil Disobedience." Look it over (the link is at the top of this post), annotate it, and think about how his philosophy of governance applies to the events in Birmingham.
Answer the questions in this post, and bring a copy of Thoreau's essay to class on Monday.
Let me know if you have any other questions.

JStallings said... October 6, 2007 at 3:18 PM

Also, please pardon the typos.

Anonymous said... October 6, 2007 at 11:25 PM

Thank-you, sir.

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