Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Monday, March 31, 2008
Yesterday in class we looked at the Joe Smitherman essay, from chapter 4, "Children of the Segregationists." We read it aloud in both classes and practiced summarizing the introduction to the section and then discussed the essay. In the 10-12 noon class, we divided the essay into sections and in groups summarized selected parts. In the later class we developed thesis sentences and for both classes the assignment was to respond to the essay in a short essay (3 paragraphs or 250 words minimally.)
Post the essays here. Respond to a classmate's essay by Thursday, April 3. Other homework was to continue reading Letters from Mississippi. Read three more letters and pull out one argument from one letter and post it, along with a summary of the letter. The section we will complete tomorrow is "At Home in a Black World." Tomorrow during the second part of the class we will write a summary of this section, highlighting the more salient events or topics which come up here, now that the volunteers are in Mississippi.
Students will post this assignment on the blog before the Monday, April 7 class meeting. Next week we'll talk about the research essay and begin planning it. It will be on a contemporary person who is living Martin Luther King's dream. A person who is a child of the Civil Rights Movement ideology. The person has to be alive and can be young or old. I'd like the person to have been doing the work for minimally 10 years.
Tomorrow in class, we will read the interview with Peggy Wallace Kennedy, daughter of George Wallace, former governor of Alabama (121).
Potential Thesis Sentences or you can make up one of your own based on the essay about Joe Smitherman (143)
1. Stephen Smitherman is a staunch supporter of his father Joe Smitherman because if he wasn't he would have to face aspects of his life and privilege of -- this is assuming he his conscience.
2. Stephen Smitherman says Colin Powell and Tiger Woods make good black leaders because they're mild mannered.
3. Rose Sanders disagrees with Stephen Smitherman's definition of strong black leadership. She says: "If we had mild-mannered black leaders we would never ended slavery...[and] we still wouldn't have the right to vote [, and] the South..." (152).
Post the essays here. Respond to a classmate's essay by Thursday, April 3. Other homework was to continue reading Letters from Mississippi. Read three more letters and pull out one argument from one letter and post it, along with a summary of the letter. The section we will complete tomorrow is "At Home in a Black World." Tomorrow during the second part of the class we will write a summary of this section, highlighting the more salient events or topics which come up here, now that the volunteers are in Mississippi.
Students will post this assignment on the blog before the Monday, April 7 class meeting. Next week we'll talk about the research essay and begin planning it. It will be on a contemporary person who is living Martin Luther King's dream. A person who is a child of the Civil Rights Movement ideology. The person has to be alive and can be young or old. I'd like the person to have been doing the work for minimally 10 years.
Tomorrow in class, we will read the interview with Peggy Wallace Kennedy, daughter of George Wallace, former governor of Alabama (121).
Potential Thesis Sentences or you can make up one of your own based on the essay about Joe Smitherman (143)
1. Stephen Smitherman is a staunch supporter of his father Joe Smitherman because if he wasn't he would have to face aspects of his life and privilege of -- this is assuming he his conscience.
2. Stephen Smitherman says Colin Powell and Tiger Woods make good black leaders because they're mild mannered.
3. Rose Sanders disagrees with Stephen Smitherman's definition of strong black leadership. She says: "If we had mild-mannered black leaders we would never ended slavery...[and] we still wouldn't have the right to vote [, and] the South..." (152).
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P46-48 (Itta Bena, June 28)
Argument:
I really can't do a good job of describing it, but then I don't have to - you've seen places like this town in movies and magazines a hundred times (47).
Evidence;
1.The Negro neighborhood hasn't got a single paved street in it. It's all dirt and gravel roads.
2. It's hard to keep the house clean with all the dust blowing from the road (48)
3.The only running water in the place is in the toilet.
Summery:
In the latter dated Itta Bena, June 28, Roy tells Anna how blacks live in the town Itta Bena. He described how the black part of town is poor, even though it is near the more affluent white part of town. He said, "To get over to the white and downtown area you have to either walk past several warehouses, small factories, etc, or cross the railroad tracks" (46). He also described Rosa Lee Williams, who is owner of the house Roy's staying in as unbelievable. He also admires how she survived the hard situation in that town.
P46 (Ruleville, July 5)
Argument:
We were really expecting much worse.
Evidence;
Most of us would not have been too surprised if everybody had been arrested as we crossed the Miss. Border and/ or beaten.
Summary:
In the Ruleville, July 5 letter, a volunteer said that when the crossed the Mississippi border they thought they would be beaten or hurt in some way, so when all that happened was an arrest, they were actually kind of jubilant. The writer mentions the three CRWs who were found dead after missing for several days as if there murder was "mild compared" to what?!
P50 (Mileston, June 30)
Argument:
You really had to be here to appreciate it.
Evidence:
I took a bath. But no ordinary bath 'cause there's no running weather.
Summary:
In the Mileston, June 30 latter,the white volunteer who stays at a black person’s house tells how they are showering without running water. So he tells his new experience with appreciation.
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Argument:
I really can't do a good job of describing it, but then I don't have to - you've seen places like this town in movies and magazines a hundred times (47).
Evidence;
1.The Negro neighborhood hasn't got a single paved street in it. It's all dirt and gravel roads.
2. It's hard to keep the house clean with all the dust blowing from the road (48)
3.The only running water in the place is in the toilet.
Summery:
In the latter dated Itta Bena, June 28, Roy tells Anna how blacks live in the town Itta Bena. He described how the black part of town is poor, even though it is near the more affluent white part of town. He said, "To get over to the white and downtown area you have to either walk past several warehouses, small factories, etc, or cross the railroad tracks" (46). He also described Rosa Lee Williams, who is owner of the house Roy's staying in as unbelievable. He also admires how she survived the hard situation in that town.
P46 (Ruleville, July 5)
Argument:
We were really expecting much worse.
Evidence;
Most of us would not have been too surprised if everybody had been arrested as we crossed the Miss. Border and/ or beaten.
Summary:
In the Ruleville, July 5 letter, a volunteer said that when the crossed the Mississippi border they thought they would be beaten or hurt in some way, so when all that happened was an arrest, they were actually kind of jubilant. The writer mentions the three CRWs who were found dead after missing for several days as if there murder was "mild compared" to what?!
P50 (Mileston, June 30)
Argument:
You really had to be here to appreciate it.
Evidence:
I took a bath. But no ordinary bath 'cause there's no running weather.
Summary:
In the Mileston, June 30 latter,the white volunteer who stays at a black person’s house tells how they are showering without running water. So he tells his new experience with appreciation.
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