Equality: A Dream Deferred?
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Day Four: April 291. View clip of example presentation
2. Rubric for project 3. Meet with partners 4. Submit character charts 5. Find and fill out evaluation form for 2 outside resources 6. Begin pulling project together. |
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1. Once you have explored how your characters face injustice in the 1930's and 1950's, it is time to explore whether that type of injustice occurs in today's world. Have things changed? If so, to what extent? How much power do people have over their path in life? To what extent do people in today's society have an equal opportunity to fulfill their dreams?
View examples from today’s world; you can use articles, news clips, music videos, movie clips, commercials, advertisements, or speeches. For each source, you must complete an analysis document—speech, visual, video, non-fiction. (download appropriate documents from above.
You must use at least two current sources and add them to your Works Cited page. I have provided you with links below, but you are not limited to these resources.
Racial Prejudice:
"A More Perfect Union" Barack Obama (speech)
Jim Crow Still Exists in America (interview)
One Trayvon Martin Case, But Two Very Different Trials (article)
A nation divided? Ten years after that verdict, what has become of OJ and the nation he divided? (article)
Gender Issues:
Senate Republicans Block Bill on Equal Pay (article)
Mindy Kaling NPR interview: On Refusing to be an Outsider and Sexism on the Set
Always #LikeAGirl (commercial)
Socio-Economic Issues:
Silent Crisis: 1 in 5 American Kids is Poor (interview)
More than half of US public school students live in poverty, report finds (article)
Wealth Inequality in American (video)
CEO cuts his own pay to raise salary of his workers minimum of 70K (video)
View examples from today’s world; you can use articles, news clips, music videos, movie clips, commercials, advertisements, or speeches. For each source, you must complete an analysis document—speech, visual, video, non-fiction. (download appropriate documents from above.
You must use at least two current sources and add them to your Works Cited page. I have provided you with links below, but you are not limited to these resources.
Racial Prejudice:
"A More Perfect Union" Barack Obama (speech)
Jim Crow Still Exists in America (interview)
One Trayvon Martin Case, But Two Very Different Trials (article)
A nation divided? Ten years after that verdict, what has become of OJ and the nation he divided? (article)
Gender Issues:
Senate Republicans Block Bill on Equal Pay (article)
Mindy Kaling NPR interview: On Refusing to be an Outsider and Sexism on the Set
Always #LikeAGirl (commercial)
Socio-Economic Issues:
Silent Crisis: 1 in 5 American Kids is Poor (interview)
More than half of US public school students live in poverty, report finds (article)
Wealth Inequality in American (video)
CEO cuts his own pay to raise salary of his workers minimum of 70K (video)
Days Five, Six: May 3, May 5
1. Now that you have made a decision about whether this type of injustice still exists in today's world, it is time to format your claim and persuade your audience. You and your partner will create an iMovie, Adobe Voice video or some other visual that introduces your evidence. In persuading the audience of your claim--Have things changed? If so, to what extent? How much power do people have over their path in life? To what extent do people in today's society have an equal opportunity to fulfill their dreams? --you will introduce your characters and show the type of injustice he or she experienced, relate the characters' experiences to issues raised in the film American Denial, and show current evidence from today's world.
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1. Groups present. Be sure to share the presentation equally.
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