Thursday, March 24, 2011

1. When was she born? Where?
February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005,

2. When does the Civil Rights Movement unofficialy start? How did Rosa Parks ignite this?
by being the person to proceed

3. Why was Rosa Parks arrested? Under what charge?
Parks was charged with a violation of Chapter 6, Section 11 segregation law of the Montgomery City code

4. Where did she go to school? What did she study to become?
highlander folk high school,secretary and receptionist

5. What is the NAACP?
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

6. When did she die? How?
natural causes at age 92

7. Find an image.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

malcom X

1. When was Malcolm X born? Where?
May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965,  Omaha,nebraska

2. Why did Malcolm X have to move so much at an early age? What happened to his father?
the K.K.K was a threat to the family,his father died and his mother was sent to a mental hospital

3. What made Malcolm lose his dream of becoming a lawyer? After he dropped out of school, what did he do for "work?"
he said to be  lawyer was no realistic goal for a nigger

4. Malcolm X was sentenced to 10 years in prision. Why was he arrested and sentenced to jail? During his jail time, what happened to Malcolm X?
for burgalary and hustling he became co-leder for the nation of islam

5. What was Malcolm X's religion?
muslim

6. How did Malcolm X regard Martin Luther King, Jr.? How did this end up changing?
king reffered to non-violence and intergration and x' reffered to violence and seperation at times

7. How did Malcolm X die? When? Who was the assassin?
nationalist movement, was shot to death,Talmadge Hayer

8. Find a picture of Malcolm X.

Monday, March 21, 2011

mlk mini biography

1. When was he born? Where?
January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968,Atlanta,georgia

2. Where did he receive his high school diploma? Bachelor's degree? Were the schools he attended segregrated?
Booker T. Washington High School. A precocious student, he skipped both the ninth and the twelfth grade and entered Morehouse College at age fifteen without formally graduating from high school. In 1948, he graduated from Morehouse with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology, and enrolled in Crozer Theologioy Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1951

3. When did he get married? To who? Does he have kids?
King married coretta scott, on June 18, 1953, on the lawn of her parents' house in her hometown of heliberg alabama They had four children; Yolanda King, Martin Luther King III, Dexter Scott King, and Bernice King

4. Where did he first became a pastor? At what church?
Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama

5. What was the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
a civil rights union

6. What rule did MLK teach for protests during the Civil Rights Movement?
non-violence

7. What was his role in the Civil Rights Movement?
the leader of the civil rights movements

8. Why was he arrested? How was he released?
9. When did he win the Nobel Peace Prize? For what?
 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience

10. How did MLK die? When?
assinated april 4, 1968

week 10 vocab

Compensate (verb) - You will be compensated depending on the quality of your work.
1.) to make an appropriate and usually counterbalancing payment

Initial (adj) - The inital step in returning to a comprehensive school is scheduling a meeting with the district.
1.)of, pertaining to, or occurring at the beginning; first: the initial step in the process

Interact (verb) - At Umoja Community School, it is important for the two classes to interact in order to promote unity!
1.)communicate : to be or become involved in communication, social activity, or work with somebody else or one another

Monday, March 14, 2011

vocab week 9

  • Resource (noun) - An important natural resource in the United States is trees.
    1.)somebody or something that is a source of help or information


  • Seek (verb) - After hsomebody or something that is a source of help or informationigh school, I will seek a career in criminal justice.
    1.)to try to find a person, thing, or place


  • Transfer (noun) - The student forgot to ask the counselor for a transfer back to the district.
    1.)conveyance of right, title, or interest in real or personal property from one person to another


  • Transfer (verb) - Some issues that arise when a student transfers to a new school is that they have to make new friends

  • 2.)to convey from one person, place, or situation to another
  • Friday, March 11, 2011

    tsunami

    an earthquake created a tsunami
    the earthquake was sacaled at 8.9
    at least 200-300 people were found dead
    the tsunami has reached hawaii and warnigs have been sent to the west coast

    Tsunami waves swirl near a port in Oarai, Ibaraki Prefecture (state) after Japan was struck by a strong earthquake off its northeastern coast Friday,
    1. large ocean wave: a large destructive ocean wave caused by an underwater earthquake or another movement of the Earth's surface

    Wednesday, March 9, 2011

    week 8 vocab

    • Administer (verb)
    • Conduct (noun, verb)
    • Element (noun)
    administer-i adminstered a vial of anti-venom
    administer-he had to administer a lethal injection

    conduct-conduct these surveys and test
    conduct- ethical conduct is a particular concern among more vulnerable service users.

    element-the skate board brand element is very popular
    element-i left my bike in the elements outside