Quarter 4, Week 1 Sentences

Achieve-(1) The students had achieved their goal. (2) The woman wanted to achieve her goal, which was to become a teacher.

Compute-(1) Technicians are trained to have good computing skills. (2) The guy knew how to compute their new PC.

Specific-(1) There was a specific way to solve the math problem. (2) There was only specific students going on the fieldtrip.

Fourth Quarter, Week 1 Vocabulary Definitions and Examples

Achieve (verb) - You can achieve a lot in life when you focus and work hard. (1)to bring to a successful end.

Specific (adj) - When trying to achieve your goals, it is helpful to be specific in the steps you will take to achieve that goal. (1)constituting or falling into a specifiable category.

 

Compute (verb) - Using a calculator makes computing decimal problems much easier. (1)to determine by calculation.

Mini-Biography - Rosa Parks

1. When was she born? Where? February 4th, 1913 at Tuskegee, Alabama
2. When does the Civil Rights Movement unofficialy start? How did Rosa Parks ignite this? Blacks were very tired of the discriminating, but what really set it off was the murder of Emmett Till.
3. Why was Rosa Parks arrested? Under what charge? She was arrested for not giving up her seat to a white woman.
 4. Where did she go to school? What did she study to become? She was home-schooled until the age of 11, then she enrolled at Montgomery Industrial School for girls. She didnt go to college til she graduated high school. She began work and was a housekeeper for a white woman.
5. What is the NAACP? The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.  
6. When did she die? How? October 24th, 2005. She was diagnosed with progressive dementia.
7. Find an image.

Week 10 Vocabulary Sentences

Interact- (1)The teacher was interacting with the students. (2)The worker was trying to make a conversation in order to interact with the customer.

Compensate- (1)The price of the item has been reduced to compensate for a defect. (2)She was compensated for the damage done to her car.


Initial- (1)The student's initial to do better in school, was to start doing her work. (2)The girl's initial to her first name was P.

Mini-Biography -- Malcolm X

Answer the following questions in COMPLETE SENTENCES. Include the questions as part of your blog.

1. When was Malcolm X born? Where? May 19, 1925. Omaha, Nebraska.

2. Why did Malcolm X have to move so much at an early age? What happened to his father? Cause of segregation, his father was murdered by the black legion.

3. What made Malcolm lose his dream of becoming a lawyer? After he dropped out of school, what did he do for "work?" Earl's civil rights activism prompted death theats from the white supremacist organization Black Legion, forcing the family to relocate twice before Malcolm's fourth birthday.

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 of burglary charges in 1946.

5. What was Malcolm X's religion? Sunni Islam.

6. How did Malcolm X regard Martin Luther King, Jr.? How did this end up changing?

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X are two people on different ends of the scales, with totally different up-bringings.

7. How did Malcolm X die? When? Who was the assassin? Three gunmen rushed Malcolm onstage. They shot him 15 times at close range.

8. Find a picture of Malcolm X.

Eyes on the Prize; Ep. 4 - Important Vocabulary

Children's campaign- A voluntary involvement of children in civl rights demonstrations in Birmingham.

March on Washington- Attracted an estimated  250,000 people for a peaceful demonstration to promote Civil Rights and economic equality for African Americans.

Civil rights bill- Was drawn with simplicity and care for a very necessary purpose. It declares who are citizens of the United States, defines their rights, prescribes penalties for violating them, and provides the means of redress.

Eyes on the Prize (Episode 3) - Vocabulary

Sit-ins- A series of nonviolent protests which led to the Woolsworth department store chain reversing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.

SNCC-  One of the principal organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.

Freedom rides- Civil rights activists that rode interstate buses into segregated southern United States to test the U.S Supreme Court decision Boynton v. Virginia.

Resource (noun) - An important natural resource in the United States is trees.- a source of supply or support.

Seek (verb) - After high school, I will seek a career in criminal justice.- try to get or reach.

Transfer (noun) - The student forgot to ask the counselor for a transfer back to the district.- transfer somebody to a different position or location of work.

Transfer (verb) - Some issues that arise when a student transfers to a new school is that they have to make new friends.- to convey from one person, place , or situation to another.

Tsunami/Earthquake in Japan

(1) There was an Earthquake in Japan.

(2) The scale of the earthquake was 8.9.

(3) Tsunami - Cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption.

(4) The tsunami hit Hawaii and Oregon

(5)The death toll is 137.

"An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."

I think what he is trying to say is that anyone who know they're breaking the law, will administer the time they will have to do in jail. The person knows what to conduct.

Week 8 Vocabulary Definitions & Examples

Administer (verb) - Ricardo, in the National City office, will administer the CAHSEE test.-work in an administrative capacity; supervise or be in charge of

Conduct (noun) - He carried himself with professional conduct.-The manner in which a person behaves, esp. on a particular occasion or in a particular context.
Conduct (verb) - I expect students to conduct themselves well with substitute teachers.-Organize and carry out.

Element (noun) - The elements of success are determination and hard work.-component: an abstract part of something

Week 7 Vocab Sentences

Occur; The incident had occurred during midnight. Nausea may occur when you consume too much alcohol.

Assume; The student assumed his answer was the correct answer. The teacher assumed his answer was wrong.

Process; The process to do the math problem was easy. Buying a new phone is a lot of process.

Respond; The student reponded to the teacher. Her response was correct.

Social Studies

Albany (Georgia) Movement, 1961- A desegregation coalition formed in Georgia November 17, 1961.

Birmingham desegregation of, 1963- A strategic movement organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to bring attention to the unequal treatment black Americans endured in Birmingham, Alabama.

Black Power- A political slogan espoused by black racialists and a name for various associated ideologies.

Brown v Board of Education, 1954- A landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.

Bus boycotts- A political and social protest campaign that started in 1955 Montgomery, Alabama, USA, intended to oppose the city's policy of racial segregation on its public transit system.

Central High School (Little Rock), 1957- A high school that the site of forced school desegregation during the American Civil Rights Movement.

Citizens Councils- An American white supremacist organization formed in 1954.

Civil Rights- 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.

Civil Rights Act of 1957- Primarly a voting rights bill, was the first rights legislation enacted by Congress in th United States since reconstruction.

Civil Rights Act of 1960- A United States federal law that established federal inspection of local voter registration polls and introduced for anyone who obstructed someone's attempt to register to vote or actually vote.

Civil Rights Act of 1964- A landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, including racial segregation.

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.

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 of Education Project.