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April 09, 2005
Civil Rights Grand Slam
Sometimes as a teacher you pick a lesson and it flops and then other times you hit a homerun. With the Civil Rights Unit from teachingtolerance.org the All-Stars Hit a Grand Slam!
We wrapped up our discussion of some of the “other people” involved in the Civil Rights Movement on Friday and the discussion was EXCELLENT. These young people have taken the lessons and made them their own. They have worked beyond the requirements and gathered a tremendous amount of knowledge and shared countless personal experiences. I am very proud of the work they put into the lessons and on the outcome.
Kids please share with your parents and especially your grandparents what you learned. Parents strike up a conversation. Ask them their thoughts. You will be impressed!
On Monday we will have a new team member in our class during first block. Miss Yelverton, from the Teacher Cadet program at Charles B. Aycock, will be coming to spend the next five weeks with us during first block. Miss Yelverton is interested in education as a career and decided she wanted to come and participate in our learning journey. Miss Yelverton was in my second seventh grade class at Norwayne and was on the Yearbook staff with Mrs. Elmore and myself her eighth grade year. She will be an excellent partner in our quest for more knowledge over the next five weeks and she will inspire children to enjoy learning as a professional educator. It is an honor that she chose to come back to my classroom having sat through two years of my same old jokes. I hope she learns even more with this new experience and she will shape young lives for a very long time to come.
Posted by hlperson at April 9, 2005 12:31 PM
Comments
The Civil Right grand slam was fun and I learned a lot from it.:)
Posted by: Kyle Powell at April 9, 2005 09:06 PM
Mr. Person makes this lesson about the civil rights movement an exciting lesson.
Posted by: Kyle Johnson at April 10, 2005 08:21 PM
The Movie on Civil Rights and Segregation was awesome! I learned a lot about people I had never heard about. All of the people's stories were very depressing. :(
Posted by: Nicole Schampier at April 11, 2005 06:30 PM
When we got in groups it was fun but when we started to read about our person then the sad part came in and we discussed what happened to them.
Posted by: Patrick Langley at April 14, 2005 04:12 PM
I cannot believe that racsist people back then were so horrid. I could not believe what i was seeing in the video. Thank you Mr. Person for giving us an awesome way of learning that other classes do not get to experince.
Posted by: Jessica Price at April 14, 2005 07:49 PM
The lesson on the Civil Rights movement was, I think, the best one yet. Thanks for teaching it. I don't think I would have understood it better from any other teacher.
Posted by: Regan Hunter at April 16, 2005 12:27 PM
That lesson you did about the Civil Rights was amazing and I learned about a lot more people. Thanks for teaching it!
Posted by: Brittany Hicks at April 20, 2005 01:08 PM
That was a really fun Project Mr.Person. It would be fun to do it again.
Posted by: Jeff Caramel at May 18, 2005 06:22 AM