9Th2

We started on a project about Martin Luther King (MLK) and the Civil Rights movement in America today.

Each of you had a sheet and you used some books to find out information about MLK, what he believed, what he said and what he did. These will be really useful when we come to starting our project properly next week. Finish for homework if you did not do so in lesson.

Homework:

A reminder that if you haven’t yet handed in your homework on Apartheid then I need it by next lesson. If I don’t get it by then you’ll be expected to come back at lunchtime to do it.

In addition to finishing the sheet about MLK, today’s homework was to find out more about his interest in civil rights. What motivated him to do what he did?

• Was it his religious beliefs?
• Was it his social conscience?
• Was it his sense of justice?

Whatever you can find out will be very helpful for the project. For information try:

• Wikipedia
• MLK Online
• TheKingCenter.org

Today we watched some of a film about Rosa Parks and thought about what life was like for black people in 50s and 60s America. We looked at things like:

• Black people finding it hard to register for voting
• Police discrimination and victimisation of black people
• The assumption of guilt for black people over white people
• Having separate drinking fountains
• Black people being forced to sit at the back of buses

I wonder what struck you most about the way coloured people were treated.

After half term we’ll look at Martin Luther King and what he did to help get rights for coloured people.

We were supposed to be watching a film about racism in America, but instead it was a snow day.

I hope you all learned lots about snowmen. Here’s what I made:

We’ll watch the film next week…