Current Events

Based on your list from yesterday’s class, you are to choose one topic and type out a brief commercial persuading others to be considered about your topic.  The commercial can be a PSA (public service announcement) or it can be a dialogue, but you and your group are to decide how you will persuade others to join your cause and one of you have to enter your commercial into the blog (but all the group members’ names need to be typed in at the bottom of the dialogue).  Please let me see your commercial before you turn it in!

Forrest Gump- Renaissance Man?

A Renaissance man is defined as a person who is crafty and knowledgable about a lot of things (ex. Leonardo da Vinci was an artist, a scientist and an inventor during his lifetime).  Now that you have just finished viewing the film Forrest Gump, would you define Forrest Gump as a Renaissance man?  If yes, what made him a Renaissance man throughout the decades in spite of his disability?  If no, why do you feel that he was not a Renaissance man?  You are to answer this question in a 2-3 sentence response.  You will be graded on grammatical accuracy, ability to answer the question and your ability to fulfill the sentence requirement.  So if you have any questions, get me to read your response before submitting it.

1950s

Looking at the picture below, explain what does it have to do with the Montgomery Bus Boycott.  Explain your thoughts in 2-3 complete sentences. 

Stock Market Activity

To follow your favorite company (and see how much money you can earn from their stock):

Click Here to download the spreadsheet.

When you open the spreadsheet, Click the “Tools” menu, find “Protection”, and select “Unprotect Sheet”.

Click Here to collect the info on your company.

To graph the value of your stock, highlight the date and value columns:

Under the “Insert” menu select “Chart”:

Choose “Line” and click “Next”:

You will see a preview of your graph. Click “Next”:

On the next screen type your company’s name under Chart Title, Type “Date” for Category X, and type “Value” for Category Y. Click Next.

Choose “as an object in” and select your company sheet. Click Finish. The Graph will drop into your spreadsheet and you can move it below your stock info.

Great Depression

Look at the picture below and write a 2-3 sentence statement on your interpretation of the picture.  What might be happening in the picture?  What might she be thinking?  What might the two girls be thinking? 

Harlem Renaissance, Part I

Please write a two to three sentence explanation of what you believe is going on in this Romare Bearden painting.  Why is this painting significant to the Harlem Renaissance?

 

Harlem Renaissance, Part II

Read the poem and describe what is going on in the poem in 2-4 sentences.  Why is this poem important to the Harlem Renaissance?  How is this poem characteristic of the Renaissance?   

Ballad of the Landlordby Langston Hughes Landlord, landlord,My roof has sprung a leak.Don’t you ‘member I told you about itWay last week? Landlord, landlord,These steps is broken down.Vvlhen you come up yourselfIt’s a wonder you don’t fall down. Ten Bucks you say I owe you?Ten Bucks you say is due?Well, that’s Ten Bucks more’n I’l pay youTill you flx this house up new. What? You gonna get eviction orders?You gonna cut off my heat?You gonna take my furniture andThrow it in the street? Um-huh! You talking high and mighty.Talk on-till you get through.You ain’t gonn a be able to say a wordIf I land my fist on you. Police! Police!Come and get this man!He’s trying to ruin the governmentAnd overturn the land! Copper’s whistle!Patrol bell!Arrest. Precinct Station.Iron cell.Headlines in press:MAN THREATENS LANDLORD TENANT HELD NO BAIL JUDGE GIVES NEGRO 90 DAYS IN COUNTY JAIL

World War I, Entry I

Describe what you see in this cartoon.  What things do you see?  What assumptions might you make?  What does “some promise” mean? Write a 2-3 sentence statement about what you see.   

Women’s Suffrage

Look at the pictures below and explain in 2-3 sentences what each picture means to you.  Also define in your own words what it means to be a suffragist.  Please remember the format for posting on the blog: 

Name: First Name, Last Initial (ex. Markel T.)
E-mail: student@henrico.com
Website: Please do not enter any website information into this box.

Please avoid slang, bad grammar, or any unacceptable classroom language. This is a reflection of who you are and you should always desire to be seen in a good way.

American Imperialism

Read the statement below made by Senator Albert J. Beveridge.  What does he feel America’s job is?  Is America any better than the European powers that  were taking advantage of Africa, Asia and South America?  Please explain your answer in a 2-3 sentence statement. 

“Mr. President, this question [of imperialism] …is racial. God has not been preparing the English-speaking…peoples for a thousand years for nothing… No! He has made us the master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns. He has given us the spirit of progress to overwhelm the forces of reaction throughout the earth. He has made us adepts (skillful or highly able) in government that we may administer government among savage and senile (crazy) peoples. Were it not for such a force as this the world would relapse into barbarism and night. And of all our race He has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world. This is the divine mission of America, and it holds for us all the profit, all the glory, all the happiness possible to man. We are trustees of the world’s progress, guardians of its righteous peace. The judgment of the Master is upon us: ‘Ye have been faithful over a few things; I will make you ruler over many thing.’”

From Congressional Record(56th Cong., 1st Session) Vol XXXIII, pp.705, 711.

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