Sunday, March 22, 2015
Grammar--conjunctions resources
Schoolhouse Rock: conjunction junction what's your function?
Games:
Quick game--choose the right conjunction (bubbles and robots)
Quiz 2 (or 1) player game
if...although...sword fight
conjunction wheel game
RAGS TO RICHES--play when you're feeling ready to be a millionaire!
Resources:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/conjunctions.htm
http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/coordinatingconjunction.htm
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Some Selma Resources
" The real problem many critics have with this film is that it's too black and too strong. Our popular reimagining of the civil rights movement is that it's something we all did together and the battle is over; that's just not true." http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2015/01/10/376081786/selma-backlash-misses-the-point
"Based on several LBJ biographies, I'd say not entirely. It's true that early on Johnson told King he didn't want to drive off support for Great Society legislation by inflaming southern allies, but he was a persistent and masterly behind-the-scenes manipulator. He fought passionately for voting rights without any push from King." http://www.npr.org/2015/01/09/376120614/the-selma-criticism-for-how-it-portrays-lyndon-b-johnson-is-it-fair
"As he did with slavery and Japanese-American internment, Obama sought to incorporate Ferguson into the turbulence of American history. The Department of Justice's damning Ferguson report, which it released last week after a lengthy investigation, depicted a present-day municipal government dedicated to theplunder and predation of its black citizens. Obama readily observed that Ferguson wasn't an isolated case, but also noted that these racist acts are no longer "endemic" in America. He also refused to accept that Ferguson meant that the struggles of Bloody Sunday were for naught. "If you think nothing’s changed in the past fifty years, ask somebody who lived through the Selma or Chicago or L.A. of the 1950s," he said to applause.
"Based on several LBJ biographies, I'd say not entirely. It's true that early on Johnson told King he didn't want to drive off support for Great Society legislation by inflaming southern allies, but he was a persistent and masterly behind-the-scenes manipulator. He fought passionately for voting rights without any push from King." http://www.npr.org/2015/01/09/376120614/the-selma-criticism-for-how-it-portrays-lyndon-b-johnson-is-it-fair
"As he did with slavery and Japanese-American internment, Obama sought to incorporate Ferguson into the turbulence of American history. The Department of Justice's damning Ferguson report, which it released last week after a lengthy investigation, depicted a present-day municipal government dedicated to theplunder and predation of its black citizens. Obama readily observed that Ferguson wasn't an isolated case, but also noted that these racist acts are no longer "endemic" in America. He also refused to accept that Ferguson meant that the struggles of Bloody Sunday were for naught. "If you think nothing’s changed in the past fifty years, ask somebody who lived through the Selma or Chicago or L.A. of the 1950s," he said to applause.
At times, it felt like Obama was addressing not the civil-rights movement veterans who had assembled in Selma, but today's new generation of activists and marchers. "We do a disservice to the cause of justice by intimating that bias and discrimination are immutable, or that racial division is inherent to America," Obama told the crowd and the country. "To deny this progress—our progress—would be to rob us of our own agency; our responsibility to do what we can to make America better."
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