DEFEATS

Detailed explanations

• Money spent
• How long the walls are
• How many people have been killed
• etc.

Expert opinions

• Site people
• Quote credible people

Facts/stats
Emotional appeal: touching the heart

• Write on the behalf of a perspective

Anecdotes
Testimony
Surveys/studies

• What people of Israel think
• Statistics can be added

Israeli Palestinian Conflict

1. Lines of Demarcation: Where should the border between Israel and Palestine be drawn?
(Where should the borders go? Do we make people move? Do we make a partition?)
Two State Solution: 
(Instead of Israel controlling Palestine, Palestine becomes its own country)
Solution 1: Palestine becomes its own state- own decisions

2. Housing Settlements: How do you propose settling the unresolved dispute over Israeli Housing Settlements into the West Bank? 

What should be done about the housing settlements that have already been built?

3. Jerusalem: Jerusalem is a Holy City to Jews, Muslims, and Christians. How do you propose to make Jerusalem available and safe to all these groups of people, worldwide?

-Israeli have taken up and control of areas of the Jews, including Jerusalem

4. Palestinian Refugees: 

As a result of the military conflicts in 1948 and again in 1967, hundreds of thousands Palestinian people fled out of the borders of Israel to the neighbouring Gaza Strip, West Bank, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon. They are a people without a country and have not been allowed to become citizens to the countries they fled to. Sine 1967, their numbers have increased into the millions because of birthrates. (7 million)

What should their rights be? Should they be allowed to return to their homeland in the West Bank(not big enough to handle that many people)? What are some compromises that can be made between Israelis, Palestinians, and the neighbouring countries to resolve this issue?

The Right of Return- "we want to return to our homeland"

Current/ Past Issues in the Middle East
1. US Embassy in Jerusalem

• If it moves to Jerusalem, it will be rude to Palestine's and would show that US supports what the Israelis have done in the 1947 agreement. Supporting Israeli taking Jerusalem. Will become a religious issue. Intifada- a holy war

2. Caterpillar Tractors in Israel

• From the money of the aid from the US, Israeli's used Caterpillar Tractors to build borders which made the Muslim's upset. 

3. Zionist Christian Support of Israel

• Millions of dollars for Jewish support
• Religious issue

History Alive Presentation Notes

1. Bill Russell- Chris

• First African American to win an NBA university basketball game
• Broke racial barriers in sports by being a head coach for basketball teams
• Became a part of the Hall of Fame in 1975

2. T.C Williams- Kento and Yoshiya

• First school in the south to teach African Americans students and hold African American teachers
• Located in Virginia
• Supreme Court ruling of Brown v. School Board Education

3. Lewis Hine- Gabi and Andrey

• Photography of child laborer's
• Wanted address the issue to public
• Children were taken because they didn't have to be paid wages unlike adults
• Kids would be tricked and kidnapped

4. Emmeline Pankhurst- Stuti

• Woman suffragist
• Founded Women's Franchise League- helped unmarried women fight 
• Women's Social and Political Union
• Received woman's rights in London then moved to America to help

5. Matthew Shepard- Malu

• Brutally attacked and murdered for being a gay student in University
• Matthew Shepard Foundation- advocate gay rights 

7. Harlem Renaissance- Cheryl

• Cultural explosion in Harlem, New York
• Black civil rights
• Paintings, sculptures, and literary elements showing the Harlem Renaissance
• Didn't intend for art to join movement, just for aesthetic

8.  4.29: Sa I Gu- Euna

• Korean Americans impacted in Los Angeles by being attacked by the African American committee
• Received no help or justice for being a minority group
• 11,000 people arrested

9. Fred Korematsu- Ria

• Asian American rights activist
• Refused to go to relocation/interment camps
• Went to Court to see if it was Constitutionally right to discriminate Asian Americans
• Denied and overruled because of military

10. Emmett Till- Jay

• Murdered at 14 years old
• African American civil rights
• Murderers weren't ruled guilty for being white

11. The Japanese Fight for American Freedom- Jack

• Fights for Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbour
• Forced into interment camps

History Alive Reflection

History Alive Project: http://historyalivethewomensrighttochoose.weebly.com/
Bibliography: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10yYyz6wPJK8EspAcrU7W3A1UlwyP8UjB6_nQlGxnPSs/edit#heading=h.idpcxy9ld51h

A. During History Alive, I learned a lot about the history of abortion and how it not only affected women. Before History Alive, I had never researched about the history of abortion through the illegalisation, organisations, cases, etc. So, I a was able to understand more about the topic. Most importantly though, I learned about how it not only affected women and it is still very controversial today.

B. If I were to keep improving on my History Alive, one thing I would work on to make it better is to improve our bibliography. I would do this by finding more reliable sources and extending my research; so, not only would the bibliography be better, but the overall writing would extend in depth.

C. One thing I liked about this project is being able to pick any topic from any time period and place. With a free choice on our topic, it allowed me to enjoy the research, writing, and forming of our project as my partner and I chose a topic we were both passionate about. However, one aspect I disliked about this project was having to create an in-depth/annotated bibliography.

D. Through the process of this project, one way I have grown as a learner was by growing on my essay techniques. For our final project, I wrote the analysis of our topic in an essay. So, this added growth for thinking about way to incorporate different text evidence and analysis to support our claim.

History Alive Essential Questions

Thesis: The women’s right to chose, a fight for the legalisation and freedom of abortion, is an issue women have been dealing and fighting for since the 1830’s.
1. Who found the first way and came up with the idea of abortion? Who first illegalised abortion?
2. What were the first protests to try to legalise abortion? What were the first protests for a women's right to chose? What were the reasons for people wanting abortion to be legalised or illegalised?
3. Where did illegal abortions take place?
4. When did the first abortion protests start?
5. Why was abortion first illegalised?
6. How did abortion become legalised?

History Alive Topic Ideas

1. Gender segregation

• Woman Suffragist Movement
• Women in war service,
• Alice Paul
• Right to choose

2. Desegregating schools
3. Children rights

•  labour rights in Asia

4. World War 2 Jewish rights in Europe
5. Segregation of Religions


This is not about life or death. This is about a women's right to choose- Opening statement

• Roe Vs. Wade
• January 22, 1973, Supreme Court stopped the law criminalising abortion and allow women to have a choice to terminate pregnancy in Texas.

Music:

http://www.protestsonglyrics.net/Songs-about-Womens-Rights.phtml

Civil Rights Timeline

13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment-Malu:

• Shaped United States of America. Amendments that constructed America
• Abolished slavery, giving African Americans equal protection, allowing black men to vote

Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.-Jack:

• Peaceful protest for equal rights
• April 4th, 1968 from James Earl Ray 

Reconstruction Acts of 1867-Luis:

• After Civil War, President Andrew Johnson tried bring back together the South and North of the United States of America
• President Impeached for not agreeing with Congress

Enforcement Acts of 1870-Ria:

• Prohibiting discrimination
• Maintain purity of white people by protecting African Americans

Plessy vs. Ferguson- Euna:

• Supreme Court case- "Separate but equal" racial segregation law
• Legalised racial segregation

Racial Violence Increases and the Great Migration Occurs- Kento:

• Moving to the North because of bad an not well payed jobs, weren't treated equally
• Peak migration to the North was in 1940

National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People- Gabi:

• Insure that there is equality and no discrimination because of race
• Formed after a race riot- held by racist white men

World War Two Segregation- Yoshiya:

• Tuskegee experiment was put on the Tuskegee men, who are African American pilots, because the white men didn't trust them
• 6888th Central Postal Battalion- all black Women's Army Corps

Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education- Cheryl:

• Overturned Plessy vs. Segregation law
• Ended federal tolerance of racial segregation
• Mr. Civil Rights- Thurgood Marshall- NAACP
• Equal opportunity for education

Civil Rights Act of 1957-Grace:

• Passed by President Eisenhower
• Allowed blacks to vote-still had to do an unfair literacy test- a lot of controversy

Little Rock, Arkansas-Jayant:

• Black people would be a part of white schools-white refused
• President Eisenhower had to get military troops to protect the black students and doctors

Sit-ins & SNCC-Isabel:

• Black people would occupy themselves in tables or bars by doing anything they could like work, reading, etc. - nonviolent  "Jail Not Bail"
• Whites did not allow the blacks to sit at the bar tables

Freedom Riders- Stuti:

• Group of blacks and whites who would travel through the South on a bus to prove that mixed transportation is okay. Came from North- South was against it because of their laws.
• The Southerners would burn the freedom riders buses- beat them up

University of Mississippi Integration- Ramu:

• James Meredith- first African American to attend the University of Mississippi- military assistance
• Ole Miss Riots in 1962 protested against James Meredith going to an all white school

Freedom Summer- Chris:

• Movement to try to legalise blacks to vote- Literacy tests- Whites would help teach African Americans
• Started with 100 college students- 3 were kidnapped and killed for involvement in the organisation

Selma "Bloody Sunday- Somya:

• March 7, 1965- 600 people crossed Edmund Pettus Bridge to start the Selma to Montgomery march- led by Hosea Williams and John Lewis- wanted equal voting rights- civil rights
• Attacks of tear gas and clubs
• Second march on March 9, 1965 was led by Martin Luther King Jr.- half of the marchers were white-
• Federal Judge ruled in their favour

Voting Rights Act and the 24th Amendment

• January 23, 1964- abolished poll taxes so you don't have to pay to vote and to allow everyone to vote- President Johnson- August 6, 1965- signed abolishment of poll taxes
• Started with the Great Alabama Freedom March

Selma

From reading and listening to examples about the leaders and followers in Selma who walked along the Edmund Pettus Bridge to protest for equal rights among races, they teach students the real issue and strength it takes for people to fight for what they believe in and want. Many students don't really think about the conditions many people went, and still go through, to stand up for what they want. The common misconception is that there isn't always a major conflict or consequence, and that you usually just walk, hold banners, or protest with not much blocking you. However, like on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama in 1965, the African Americans were being beaten up on the bridge, and blood was being shed just because they were protesting for equal rights. Majority of the time, it takes strength and courage to protest and stand up for what you believe in. So, with the examples and stories from those who were there on the day of the "Bloody Sunday", it really shows the truth on how there is more brutality to protests for those who want to fight back for what they believe in.

Glory

I don't believe that the movie Glory should be continued to be shown to 8th grade classes during the Civil War unit. The reason why I believe this is because I found that the movie was more for entertainment purposes rather than being educational. Though it isn't supposed to be watched informatively, I do find that it didn't help give an insight to the Civil War and didn't share much information that could be helpfully provided. Even though the movie contained correct facts such as the segregation, the clothing, and Montgomery, the movie could have contained more facts related to the Civil War that could help start us up for the unit.

Slave Questions

1. Where were the slaves kept after a day(s) of work?
2. Were the slaves owned by Yeomen treated better than those owned by Planters?
3. How did Americans think that they were superior to slaves in the first place?
4. What was the process the slaves went through to escape?
5. Did the slaves try to kill their owners?

Capturing Americans

Blog: Currently there are approximately 300 million Americans. If 50 million of America’s youngest, strongest, and most capable of earning wages and contributing to the economy of the country suddenly disappeared, what would be the consequences for the future of America? How long would such consequences last (decade, score, century, how many generations)?

If the 50 million of the youngest and strongest people in America suddenly disappear, the consequence would lead to an economic decline. As those 50 million people are the most capable to earning wages and are the ones who contribute to the countries economy, America wouldn't be able to control and run the economic system efficiently. However, the other remaining citizens could take the jobs of the 50 million missing people, but won't be able to contribute to the economy efficiently. The consequences would have a lasting affect of a few decades as the population would wait for a new younger generation to grow.

Bill of Rights II

Need to Knows for Test:

First Amendment = Five Freedoms (RASPP)

1. Freedom of Assembly

2. Freedom of Speech

3. Freedom of Religion

4. Freedom of Petition

5. Freedom of Press

Second Amendment = Double Barreled Guns

Fourth Amendment = Search Warrant

• Grant to do a search and surveilence

Fifth Amendment = Plead the 5th/ No Double Jeopardy

• Rights for somebody who is going to be or is arrested
• Can't be put in the same trial twice

Sixth Amendment = Speedy Trial

• Can't keep in jail while waiting for a trail
• Be brought before judge to have a case within a time

Eighth Amendment = No Cruel or Unusual Punishment

• Need to follow judging guidlines

Responding to an Essential Question

1. Intro.
1. Present Historical Context
2. CLEARLY Present Claim (Restate the Question)
3. BRIEFLY present three ideas to be discussed
1. DO NOT PRESENT DETAILS, FACTS, or DATES
2. Idea 1
1. Topic Sentence
2. Evidence

3. Idea 2

1. Topic Sentence
2. Evidence

4. Idea 3

1. Topic Sentence
2. Evidence

5. Conclusion

1. Lesson or big Idea related to the claim
2. Restate the claim in a new way

Question #1:

How can citizens and groups participate effectively in the democratic process?  (Think about the Bill of Rights and the voting rights for individuals vs. representatives)

Citizens and groups participate effectively in the democratic process in the United States of America.

Question #2:

How is the Constitution interpreted in different ways, and how has that played out over the course of U.S. history? (Think about the Bill of Rights, the 27 amendments to the Constitution, and Supreme Court decisions.)

Question #3:

Discuss three parts of the preamble to the US Constitution.  Be sure to include a discussion of the meaning of each part and provide examples.

Bill of Rights Presentations

1. Freedom of the Press

• Allows citizens the right and freedom to publicise writing regardless of content

2. Freedom of Speech

• Adults believe that having a freedom of speech is important but students should have regulations and limited amount of speech
• To be able to express and say whatever one wants to say

3. Freedom of Assembly

• Bankers on Wall Street received bailout money from tax payers during time of bankruptcy
• Tax payers occupied street to protest
• Freedom to assemble and protest

4. Freedom to Petition

• Tells 

5. Freedom of Religion

• Freedom to hold as many religions and beliefs
• Muslims in United States are being disrespected and US citizens believe they should be under surveillance and kept a close eye on which the Muslims believe will invade their privacy.

How A Bill Becomes A Law

Last: It's the Law!

Pre-Amble, Federalism, and Branches

1. In order to form a more perfect union

• Better than the articles of federation
• More perfect than before

2. Establish Justice

• Legislature at federal, state, and local levels
• Courts at federal, state and local levels
• Law enforcement at federal, state, and local levels

3. Insure Domestic Tranquility

• Peace between states, counties, and cities

4. Provide for the common defence

• National Military (army, navy, air force, marines, coast guard)

5.  Promote the general welfare and

• social programs to help elderly and needy individuals

6. Secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and posterity

• Maintain civil rights (Including Voting) for ourselves and our children

Federalism

Federal/ Delegated: Coin and print money, Raise and support armed forces, Admit new states, Regulate foreign trade, Pass laws regulating immigration, Establish joint offices, 

Concurrent/ Both: Borrow money, Establish courts, Collect taxes, Make and enforce laws, Provide for the health and welfare of the people, Charter banks

State/ Reserved: Make civil and criminal laws, Regulate trade within a state, Establish local governments, Establish and support public schools, Pass laws regulating businesses within state borders, Pass license requirements for professionals(Teacher, nurse, etc.)

Fill in the chart below with these terms:

Supreme Court Executive Legislative

Creates Laws Interprets the Law President

 

Branch:	Legislative	Executive	Judicial
Main Duty:	Creates Laws	Enforces Laws	Interprets the Law
Head of the Branch:	Congress (House of Representatives and Senate)	President	Supreme court

Which of the three branches of US Government is the most powerful?

All the three branches are equal to balance out

Disunia/ Articles of Confederation

Strengths:

• Can legally make and borrow money
• Negotiate with foreign nations and American Indians
• Try to resolve differences between the states
• Ask states for money and soldiers

Weaknesses:

• Pass or collect taxes
• Raise an army (no standing army)
• Enforce its own laws (no Judicial system)
• No Executive or Legislative branches with power
• Most power held by the states
• One branch of government

1. What were some of the problems Disunia had with enforcing agreements?

Disunia couldn't make an agreement or help each other because each state was focused on helping their own state, and trying to make rules that affected the other states for the benefit of their own. Which then lead to the other states disagreeing with the others states plans, therefore Disunia wasn't able to enforce any agreements.

2. What could be done to help Disunia function better?

The states could have come together and talked out a good agreement to all contribute to helping the pollution and Evil Weevile problem, instead of focusing on the benefit of their own state.

American Revolution Battles

1. Battle of Trenton

• George Washington formed secret attack on Hessians
• Christmas Evening
• First American Victory

2. Battle of Saratoga

• Greatest victory for American Forces
• British Surrendered
• Benedict Arnold ignored orders and pushed into battle
• Benedict Arnold known as best trader- set secrets over to British

3. Valley Forge

• December 1777- Washington troops at military camp in freezing cold
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Stueben- Prussian- Makes troops a military man

5. Guerilla Warfare- Sneak attacks and ambushes

• Francis Marion-Launched guerilla warfare against loyalists
• Daniel Morgan- used guerilla tactics to fight British and Indian guides
• British thought wasn't gentlemen like

6. Battle of Yorktown

• 1781- George Washington thought finished the war and ambushed the British with the French

7. Treaty of Paris

• September 3, 1783- Treaty between British and Americans signed
• Marked end of American Revolutionary War
• British believed they should have right of land in America because they helped colonists

Government 101

1. Monarchy -- A government by one ruler such as a king or queen.  Passed down from one generation to the next in the same family, hereditary.  

2. Oligarchy -- A government by an ruling elite group of people.  The rulers make decisions to benefit themselves.

3. Democracy -- The rules and decisions are made by a majority (51%).  A super majority is 60%.  

4. Republic -- Decisions are held accountable to the law.  The majority doesn’t make the final decision.  The decision is up to the courts.  

5. Anarchy  -- There is no government.  People are allowed to make their own decisions.  This includes defending their own land, property, and themselves.

Why does America have federal and state governments?

America has federal and state governments because state governments deals with small issues in their country and enforce things that can help their state. Whereas, the federal government deals with international issues and common laws across the country. Different local states have different problems that they worry about.

U.S Government Basics

U.S Senators Requirements
Age: Above 30
Citizenship: Nine years prior U.S citizenship
Residency: Resident in that state
Term Length: Six Years
Term Limits: Unlimited
Number Per State: Two senators per state

House of Representative Requirements
Age: 25 minimum
Citizenship: Seven years prior U.S citizenship
Residency: District of state
Term Length: Two years
Term Limits: Unlimited
Number Per State: Varies based on Population
What does the plus three mean? District of Columbia