BLM part 1
Yesterday you told me that you wanted to learn more about Black Lives Matter so let's get started!
We will talk about important persons such as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr.
Have you heard the names before? What do you already know about them?
Use the Google Meet chat and write there if you know the persons. Who are they?
Rosa Parks
You will now work in your breakout rooms for 10 minutes.
Open a Google document and share it in your group. Help each other. When you are back in the main room you are going to tell me and the class what you came up with.
Use Google and try to find out the answers to the questions below:
Who was Rosa Parks?
Where and when did Rosa Parks live?
What did she do?
What happened to her?
What does the "bus boycott" mean?
Martin Luther King Jr.
You will now work in your breakout rooms for ten minutes. Continue writing in the document you started on Rosa Parks. Help each other. When you are back in the main room you are going to tell me and the class what you came up with.
Use Google and try to find out the answers to the questions below:
Who was Martin Luther King Jr?
Where and when did he live?
What is he famous for?
What are your reactions to the video we just saw?
Black lives Matter - background
(Many hard words in the text, but I will help you during class)
The hashtag #BlackLivesMatter was created around July 2013.
But it wasn’t till November 25, 2014, that the hashtag went mainstream. In the first 20 hours of that day, #BlackLivesMatter was used to send around 10,000 tweets. In four hours that followed the Twittersphere lit up: 92,784 tweets were sent using the hashtag. #BlackLivesMatter was to become a force to be reckoned with. (See this NPR Codeswitch article for more.)
Since those early days of online activism, Black Lives Matter has evolved into a movement that is now as much physical as it is digital.
Though the hashtag is separate from the Black Lives Matter organization and movement, it is often used when reporting of events and interventions.
On August 1, 2016, a coalition of organizations with affiliations to Black Lives Matter called the Movement for Black Lives released a detailed platform of demands. These were soon tweeted on social media using the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag. #BlackLivesMatter has connected people from around the U.S. (and beyond) with the goal of ending various forms of racial injustice, while also seeking to celebrate and humanize Black lives. (morningsidecenter.org)
You will now work in your breakout rooms for 5 minutes. Continue writing in the document you started on Rosa Parks. Help each other. When you are back in the main room you are going to tell me and the class what you came up with.
What have you learnt about Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King and the Civil Right Movements that you didn't know before?
Homework for next time:
The inauguration is the formal ceremony that marks the start of a new presidency, and it takes place in Washington DC. The public ceremony is scheduled for Wednesday, January 20, 2021, on the West Front of the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. The event will be the 59th presidential inauguration. Joe Biden will take the oath of office as president on that day, and Harris will take the oath of office as vice president.
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