Teaching history so students will care

• Should slavery be abolished?
• Who should have the right to vote?

Working in groups we were able to skim through a passage where we asked ourselves questions and then share with our groups as we move around the room to see who will match with our responses...
With six different groups-
White Woman: they said yes, right to vote. Because did a lot in war and take care of their kids. Yes, to abolish slavery. My group was white workers/indentured servants we agreed to become an alliance.
Free African Americans chose the right to vote and are against slavery so we formed an alliance with them too. As for the Male property owners they love slavery because they own slaves that run their business. Also, they do not agree on everyone being able to vote. Northerns believe the wealthy should vote, they love slavery for their cotton markets. Native Americans care for the right to vote and they do not care about slavery. Enslaved African Americans are against slavery and they believe everyone should have the right to vote.

Identify one text to text connection from the reading. Podcast teaching hand history colony; black ants and Buddhists, back then a lot of people couldn't vote. Identify one text to self-connection- it can be that I am not able to vote because of my legal status and I always had so many friends around me that had the opportunity to vote. One text to world connection was that history is all around us and is very important. We as a class used Hong Kong the NBA Basketball player that had the report about their way of doing things. One question the reading raised for me is- How comfortable are we to teach this? How can we address this to our readings in the classroom?
*They own slavery-
Washington(1), Jefferson(3), Madison(4), Monroe(5), Jackson(6), Tyler, Polk

Service Learning: 

• a form of experiential education
• Community service-
• An equal benefit to provider & recipient
• Who do we contact?
• Can we go back to plastic/recyclable trays?
• Contact the principal

Structured reflection-

• Students reflect on this experience 
• Role plays with him; she wanted him to not go home & tell the parent 
• Learn to communicate with students that it won't affect you

What is an activist?

Someone who fights for what they believe in, passionate, has a cause. Wants & change something, might get arrested for the work. 

What is activism?

Protesting, spreading awareness, organizing action, petitioning

Strong leader? 

Charismatic, persuasive, dedicated, advocate, brave, practice what they preach, and a good communicator

Who in my community are they examples of activists?

• The mayor
• teachers
• police
• firefighters
• Greta Thunberg
• Emma Gonzalez
• Naomi Wadler