Warm-Up [on Canvas, graded]

Tracking: the process of separating students into classes based on academic ability (i.e. advanced, average, below average). Your ability is usually determined by your test scores. Do you think tracking is advantageous or disadvantageous to students? Explain.

Think-Pair-Share
Discuss with partner.

I chose this Warm-Up as a lead into our next unit on the Jim Crow laws and Segregation, because...

Segregation

segregation in the historical sense

the separation or isolation of a race, class, or ethnic group by enforced or voluntary residence in a restricted area, by barriers to social intercourse, by separate educational facilities, or by other discriminatory means the separation for special treatment or observation of individuals or items from a larger group segregation as it exists in many forms

What is the value of integration or of diversity?

What is the value of segregating oneself or ones group from the rest?

What are the effects of segregation on a person or groups identity? Of integration? Of assimilation?

Segregation in the Context of AAH

the separation or isolation of a race, class, or ethnic group by enforced or voluntary residence in a restricted area, by barriers to social intercourse, by separate educational facilities, or by other discriminatory means
the separation for special treatment or observation of individuals or items from a larger group

Unit 6: Segregation & Jim Crow

1880s-1930s: JIM CROW ERA

1865-1877: RECONSTRUCTION

1883: CIVIL RIGHTS ACT DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL

The white mans dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities. - Ida B. Wells

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain selfconscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American - W.E.B. Du Bois

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

- Booker T. Washington

Unit 6: Defining Key Terms

on Canvas will have to address the Who-What-WhenWhere-Why of various terms that relate to this unit will be quizzed on these terms