Thursday, March 24, 2011

Week 10 Vocabulary Paragraph

Initially our education was a disaster. but over time for us to compensate we have been getting a better education because we have started to interact with each other and help each other to reach greater heights in the educating world.

Mini-Biography - Rosa Parks

1. When was she born? Where? Tuskegee, Alabama on  February 4, 1913
2. When does the Civil Rights Movement unofficialy start? How did Rosa Parks ignite this? The civil rights movement unofficialy started on  December 1, 1955 when rosa parks refused to give up her seat for a white man.
3. Why was Rosa Parks arrested? Under what charge? Rosa Parks was arrested because she did not give up her seat for a white man and move to the back of the bus. she was charged with Civil Disobedience 4. Where did she go to school? What did she study to become?  Alabama State Teachers College. she studied to become a teacher.
5. What is the NAACP?  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP),
6. When did she die? How? 24 October 2005. she died of natural cause. she had dementia
7. Find an image.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Week 10 Vocabulary Sentences

Interact -
 1. It is a good thing to interact with your classmates to keep from having conflicts with them.
 2. Babies are more likely to interact with their mother than their father.

Compensate -
 1. Everyone should be compensated after a week of work with a pay check.
 2. I needed to compensate my friend twenty dollars because he lended me ten dollars with intrest.

 Initial -
 1. Every parent will be happy when their baby start to take their initial steps in life.
 2. The teacher initially said her class was the best but after a week she changed her mind.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Week 10 Synonyms, Images, and Sentences

Interact (verb) - Intermingle, act together, intergrate, cooperate
 These babies are interacting with each other.
Compensate (verb) - Make up for, offset, pay damages, reimburse, give back
 this person is getting compensation or a paycheck for his work.
Initial (adjective, noun, verb) - First, early, original
 this is the babies initial or first steps

Mini-Biography -- Malcolm X

1. When was Malcolm X born? Where? 19 May 1925, Omaha, Nebraska
2. Why did Malcolm X have to move so much at an early age? What happened to his father? He had to move so much at an early age because his father civil rights acts prompted death threats from the white supremacist organization Black Legion, forcing the family to relocate. His father was later killed.
3. What made Malcolm lose his dream of becoming a lawyer? After he dropped out of school, what did he do for "work?" a favorite teacher told Malcolm his dream of becoming a lawyer was "no realistic goal for a nigger," Malcolm lost interest in school. He dropped out, spent some time in Boston, Massachusetts working various odd jobs, and then traveled to Harlem, New York where he committed petty crimes. By 1942 Malcolm was coordinating various narcotics, prostitution and gambling rings.
4. Malcolm X was sentenced to 10 years in prision. Why was he arrested and sentenced to jail?During his jail time, what happened to Malcolm X? convicted on burglary charges. he used the time to further his education.
5. What was Malcolm X's religion? the Nation of Islam but later made his own the Muslim Mosque
6. How did Malcolm X regard Martin Luther King, Jr.? How did this end up changing?He didnt like Martin Luther King, Jr. This ended up changing because of his enlightenment.
7. How did Malcolm X die? When? Who was the assassin? They shot him 15 times at close range. February 21, 1965. Talmadge Hayer, Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson
8. Find a picture of Malcolm X. 

Friday, March 18, 2011

Eyes on the Prize; Ep. 4 - Important Vocabulary

Childrens Campaign - The Children’s Campaign was the voluntary involvement of children in civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham. Thousands of young people marched, were arrested, attacked by police dogs and tortured with water hoses.

March on Washington -  the most militant and important force in African American politics in the early 1940s, formed in order to protest segregation in the armed forces. 

Civil Rights Bill - a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, including racial segregation

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Week 9 Vocabulary Paragraph

If we humans would like to survive in this world longer we would have to share our resources. we have to seek guidance from each other and help each other for everyone to become equal so we could have a better future with everyones help. we have to transfer all our anger n hatred into love to do this.

Monday, March 14, 2011

Week 9 Vocabulary Definitions & Example Sentences

  • Resource (noun) - An important natural resource in the United States is trees.

  • Definiton: physical or virtual entity of limited availability

  • Seek (verb) - After high school, I will seek a career in criminal justice.

  • Definition: try to get or reach

  • Transfer (noun) - The student forgot to ask the counselor for a transfer back to the district.

  • Definition: an act of transferring
  • Transfer (verb) - Some issues that arise when a student transfers to a new school is that they have to make new friends.

  • Definition: move from one place to another

    Wednesday, March 9, 2011

    Week 8 Vocabulary Sentences

  • Administer (verb)

  • 1. Doctors need to administer surgery on a patient if he has been seriously hurt.
    2.  You need to be responsible to administer a job.
  • Conduct (noun, verb)

  • 1. The baby's conduct was very mature.
    2. The conducter conducted an orchestra.
  • Element (noun

  • 1. Jealousy is an element in everyones life.
    2. Melody and Harmony are two very important elements in music.

    Tuesday, March 8, 2011

    Week 8 Synonyms, Images, and Sentences

    *Administer (verb) - Manage, dispense, direct, govern, oversee

    This person is adminstering a shot into herself.

    * Conduct (noun) - Behavior, demeanor, carry
     this persons conduct or behavior is childish for playingon a piano.
    * Conduct (verb) - Actions, deeds, manners
     This person is conducting a band.

    * Element (noun) - Part, component, building block
     (building block)

    Monday, March 7, 2011

    Week 8 Vocabulary Definitions & Examples

    Administer (verb) - Ricardo, in the National City office, will administer the CAHSEE test.
    Definition- distribute or perform
    Conduct (noun) - He carried himself with professional conduct.
    Definition- behavior
    Conduct (verb) - I expect students to conduct themselves well with substitute teachers.
    Definition- direct the course of, lead, manage or control
    Element (noun) - The elements of success are determination and hard work.
    Definiton- component, abstract part of something

    Thursday, March 3, 2011

    Week 7 Vocab Paragraph

    We assume that if the proccess of overcoming oppression and violence will occur when we respond by using the foundation of love to become equal and caring to each other.

    Civil Rights Movement Vocabulary/People/Events

    Democratic National Convention, 1964 -Because Democratic President Lyndon Johnson had announced he would not seek a second term, the purpose of the convention was to select a new nominee to run as the Democratic Party’s candidate for the office.
    - It was held in Chicago, Illinois, From August 26-28
    Fourteenth Amendment -  grants citizenship to everyone born in the US and subject to its jurisdiction and protects civil and political rights
    - It was adopted on July 9, 1868 as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.
    Freedom Riders/Riders-  civil rights activists that rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States to test the United States Supreme Court decision Boyton v. Virginia of 1960 
    - The first Freedom Ride left Washington D.C on May 4, 1961 and was scheduledto arrive in New Orleans on May 17
    Freedom Schools (Mississippi), 1964 - alternative free schools for African Americans mostly in the South
    - They were originally part of a nationwide effort during the Civil Rights Movement to organize African Americans to achieve social, political and economic equality in the U.S. 
    Freedom Summer (Mississippi), 1964 - a campaign in the U.S. launched in June 1964 to register as any African Americans voters in Mississippi 
    integration - refers to social and cultural behavior
    Jim Crow -  used to describe the segregation laws, rules, and customs which arose after Reconstruction ended in 1877 and continued until the mid-1960's
    Ku Klux Klan - An organization in the U.S. which believes in white supremacy or white nationalism
    literacy tests -  government practice of testing the literacy of potential citizens at the federal level, and potential voters at the state level
    Little Rock Nine - 9 african americans going to an all white school
    lynchings - executions carried out by mobs

    Wednesday, March 2, 2011

    Week 7 Vocab Sentences

    Occur
    1.  Nothing occured during the baseball game because it was canceled.
    2.  Religious ideas occur all over the world.

    Assume
    1.  I assume the bus will arrive at around 1p.m.
    2.  The boxers assumed their stances when they went into the ring.

    Procces (Verb & Noun)
    1. I will need to procces your grades in the computer.
    2. Walmart sells proccessed foods.

    Respond
    1. It is commen curtizy to respond to someone who asks you a question.
    2. You need to respond to every question that is givin to you in order.

    Tuesday, March 1, 2011

    Week 7 Vocabulary Definitions & Examples

    Assume (verb)-take to be the case or to be true
    -If you assume things about other people before you get to know them, you are probably incorrect - about your assumptions.
    Respond (verb)- show a response or a reaction to something
     - A good way to respond to assumptions is to prove people wrong.
    Process(noun & verb)- subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition---deal with in a routine way
     - Processed foods tend to be unhealthier than organically grown foods.
    Occur (verb)- To happen or take place
     - Common colds occur when people don't wash their hands frequently.

    Civil Rights Movement

    Albany (Georgia) Movement, 1961 -  a desegragation coalition formed in Albany, Georgia, on November 17, 1961
    - it was credited as a key lesson in strategy and tactics for the national civil rights movement
    Birmingham, desegregation of, 1963 - a strategic movement organized by the Southern Chrisitan Leadership Confrence (SCLC) to bring attention to the unequal treatment black americans endured in Brimingham, Alabama
    -it was a strategic movement for the civil rights movement
    Black Power - movement emphasizing racal pride and black politics and cultural institution to promote black collective interest and increase black values.
    -it was a movement for the civil rights movement
    Brown v Board of Education, 1954 - a landmark decision from the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws that seperate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional
    - this decision lead way for the civil rights movementboycotts - a political and social protest intended to protest the city's policy of racial segragation on public transportation systems.
    bus
    - this was a stragety used int he civil rights movement
    Central High School (Little Rock), 1957 -  a forced school of desegregation
    - this was a way to promote the civil rights movement
    Citizens Councils  - White supremacist organization
    - They opposed the civil rights movement
    civil rights - Civil and political rights are a class of rights and freedoms that protect individuals from unwarranted action by government and private organizations and individuals and ensure one's ability to participate in the civil and political life of the state without discrimination or repression
    - The Civil Rights Movement aimed for this
    Civil Rights Act of 1957 - the first civil rights legislation enacted by the Congress in the U.S.
    - an Act part of the Civil Rights Movement
    Civil Rights Act of 1960 - a United States federal law that established federal inspection of local voter registration polls and introduced penalties for anyone who obstructed someone's attempt to register to vote or actually vote
    - an Act of the Civil Rights Movement
    Civil Rights Act of 1964 - a landmark piece of legislation in the U.S. that outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, including racial segregation
    - an Act of the Civil Rights Movement
    Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) - a U.S. civil rights organization that originally played a pivotal role for african americans in the Civil Rights Movement.
    - This helped Promote the Civil Rights Movement
    Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) - formed to coordinate and unite voter registration and other civil rights activities in the state and oversee the distribution of funds from the Voter Education Project
    - Help Promed Civil Rights Movement

    Week 7 Synonyms, Images, and Sentences

    *Occur – happen, take place, transpire, come to mind

    I chose this picutres because this occurs when you get burned.
    *Assume – presume, imagine, suppose

    I chose thise because he eliminated two answers so he has to assume the answer is either C or B.
    *Process (noun) – course, procedure, development

    This is the process of development
    *Process (verb) – treat, handle
    The doctor is in the process of treating a patient.