Band: March 2017 Concert Reflection

What are you most proud of from your performance at the concert?

During my performance in the concert, I was most proud of keeping up with all the tempos in each song. Especially when we were playing IV. Gallop with the Wind Ensemble, even though I didn't play all the notes as I would miss the timing, when I did play, I was able to play the correct notes and at the correct timing.

What do you need to work on to improve for the next performance?

What I need to improve on next performance is to accentuate the articulation. As we would play the correct articulation, in the auditorium the articulation isn't as prominent. So, next concert I will improve by putting more power into each of the articulations.

What does our band, as a whole, need to work on to improve for the next concert?

For the next concert, our band as a whole should listen more to each other and look more at the conductor while playing. As a few times in our pieces while performing, we would go off tempo shortly, we didn't listen to each other so there wouldn't be a mixup. As well as, it would help to look at the conductor more often to keep on tempo.

What did you learn from performing in the concert?

From performing in the concert, I have learned how it is important to stay on tempo as a mistake could easily be heard. As well as, when groups share a rest, it is important to really hold the rest so then it will be clearer to the audience that there is a rest. 

What did you learn by watching others perform?

While watching others perform, I learned how it is important to follow and accentuate dynamics so any other important parts and instruments could be heard and emphasised.

What motivation do you have after watching the more experienced players perform?

After watching the other players performed, I am motivated to push myself further with faster tempos and dynamics to grow as a musician.

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.

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