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Contrasting Apartheid & Civil Rights Movements

Compare and contrast Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela in a project exploring Apartheid and the American Civil Rights movement. Discuss similarities and differences in defining maps and describing maps in your journal. Analyze their Nobel Peace Prize wins. Enhance media literacy while covering global issues like slavery. Learn about sources of power in different societies.

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Contrasting Apartheid & Civil Rights Movements

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  1. Daily Warm-Up • CNN STUDENT News • http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/index.html • Quiz today!!!

  2. CNN Quiz 1. What strait did Iran threaten to close, which could affect oil shipments from the region? 2. Who replaced Kim Jong Il as leader of North Korea? 3. What state held the first political contest of the 2012 U.S. presidential election? *Media Literacy Question of the Day *4. How much of a responsibility does the news media have to cover issues like slavery and human trafficking?

  3. Objectives • SS 7.C&G.1.4 Compare the sources of power and governmental authority • in various societies (e.g. monarchs, dictators, elected • officials, anti-governmental groups and religious, political • factions). • 7.C.1.1 Explain how culture unites and divides modern societies • and regions (e.g. enslavement of various peoples, caste • system, religious conflict and Social Darwinism). • ELA 2.02 comparing, contrasting, and evaluating information from different sources about the same topic.

  4. Essential Question • How does apartheid compare and contrast with the American civil rights movement of the 1960’s?

  5. Fundamentals • Today we are starting the basis for our project: comparing and contrasting Apartheid to the American Civil Rights movement of the 1960’s

  6. Comparing and Contrasting Martin Luther King jr. to Nelson Mandela

  7. Create this in your journal. We will later transfer information to poster paper:

  8. Put notes from yesterday into your defining maps • We will also re-watch the two biographies if we need to.

  9. Lets talk about the similarities

  10. Lets talk about the differences

  11. Put this in your defining map • The Nobel Peace Prize 1964Martin Luther King Jr. • Youngest man in history at the time to win Nobel Peace Prize

  12. The Nobel Peace Prize 1964Martin Luther King Jr. Youngest man in history at the time to win Nobel Peace Prize

  13. Describing maps • Use words to describe both Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King jr. • Courageous ect. Use adjectives

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