US History: Social Justice Research Papers

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US History Social Justice Research Papers

• Weber
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Activator

• Honest Self Reflection
• 1. How much time have you spent working on this
  paper (in hours)?
• 2. What has been the most exciting part or
  easiest part of writing the paper?
• 3. What has been the most challenging part?
• 4. How confident are you about finishing the
  final draft by Friday and being proud of what you
  accomplished?

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Agenda

• Activator, agenda, and objective (10 minutes)
• Common mistakes overview (10 minutes)
• Peer-editing / self-editing (30-45 minutes)
• Citation format (20 minutes)
• Setting up an account on Turnitin.com (15
  minutes)
• Independent work time (30 minutes)
• Failure is Impossible (time permitting)
• Gender Discussion (time permitting)
• Harlem Renaissance (time permitting)
• Exit ticket and homework (5 minutes)

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Objective

• All students will demonstrate their understanding
  of the attacks on civil liberties which occurred
  in the 1920s by writing the first section of
  their social justice research papers.
• 11.5.4 11.5.2.

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Common Mistakes

• Try not to use the first person I or I think
  should not be in a formal paper.
• Contractions are not allowed in formal writing
• Cant should be Cannot
• Isnt should be Is not
• Wouldnt should be Would not
• Check words that sound the same
• There and Their
• CITATIONS almost every paragraph in a formal
  research paper should have multiple citations.
• Do not forget to cite your sources, its better to
  have too many than too few!

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Peer-edit / Self-edit

• Even if you do not catch the mistakes when
  writing, you will probably catch them if you read
  the paper aloud.
• Find a partner and read your essay aloud to them,
  stopping to make corrections where needed.
• Have your partner read their essay to you,
  stopping to make corrections.

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Works Cited

• Book
• Author last name, first name. Title of the Book.
  Place of Publication, State Publisher, Year.
• Internet Article
• Author last name, first name. Title of the
  article. full.url.address.website.com/specific.pa
  ge. Date accessed.

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In Text Book

• Parenthetical references
• (Author last name, p. number).
• Note Must correspond to a entry in your works
  cited.
• Footnotes On a Mac click where you want to
  footnote to come. Hold down Option and
  Command and F all at the same time.
• First citation Author first and last name, Title
  of the Book, (Place of Pub Publisher, year), p.
  number.
• Second citation Author last name, p. number.
• Third citation in a row Ibid.
• Note only use Ibid if you want to get fancy and
  only if it is the third time in a row you have
  cited the same source. It is Latin for as
  previously cited.

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In Text Internet Article

• Parenthetical
• (Author or website name, p. number)
• Must correspond to an entry in your works cited.
• Footnotes On a Mac click where you want to
  footnote to come. Hold down Option and
  Command and F all at the same time.
• Author first and last name, Title of the
  Article (full.url.web.address.com), p. number.

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Setting up Your Account at TurnItIn.com in 8 Easy
Steps

• 1. Go to http//www.turnitin.com/static/index.htm
  l.
• 2. Click on New User
• 3. Go to New Students Start Here and click on
  Create a User Profile.
• 4. Where it says Create a New Account click the
  first option Student.
• 5. Enter Class ID 29833436
• 6. Enter Password Weber
• 7. Enter personal information first name, last
  name, email address, make up a password, select
  security question, and answer security question.
• 8. Click I Agree Create Profile.

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• THESIS opening telling reader main ideas in
  paper in order you address them (suggestion
  write this last)
• 1. FIRST BODY SECTION describe the historical
  context (suggestion use your comprehension
  check).
• A) When (1920s)
• B) What (cultural conflict)
• C) Supporting examples
• i. KKK (nativism)
• ii. Palmer Raids
• iii. Immigration quotas
• 2. SECOND BODY SECTION your organization.
• A) When and by whom was it started? What kinds
  of people were involved?
• B) What specific things did it do to fight
  racism and prejudice early on?
• i. Specific example (maybe court case)
• ii. Specific example (protest)
• iii. Specific example (education)
• 3. THIRD BODY SECTION what made it ultimately
  successful?
• A) This organization started in the 1920s, but
  continued to fight for peoples rights throughout
  the
• 20th century.
• B) Specific examples (what things did the
  organization
• do? Winning court cases, etc.)

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Review Section One ?

• 1. FIRST BODY SECTION describe the historical
  context (suggestion use your comprehension
  check).
• A) When (1920s)
• B) What (cultural conflict)
• C) Supporting examples
• i. KKK (nativism)
• ii. Palmer Raids
• iii. Immigration quotas

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Writing the First Section

• Use your comprehension checks.
• There was a surge of racism and anti-immigrant
  attitudes and policies in the 1920s. The Great
  Migration after the Civil War had brought
  millions of African Americans to cities in the
  Northern states. International immigration
  brought millions of people from Europe throughout
  the end of the 19th century, and the
  transportation revolution and increased
  industrialization added to the growth of cities.
  Ethnic neighborhoods developed in major cities,
  but also new cultural conflicts over what it
  meant to be American in a nation entirely made
  of immigrants (coming from other countries at one
  point or another in this nations past). Conflict
  over jobs fueled racial tensions, but divisions
  between rich and poor were particularly striking
  as billionaires controlled the majority of the
  nations wealth and the class of exploited
  industrial workers continued to grow. Some people
  tried to claim they were more American because of
  the color of their skin or in virtue of the fact
  that they were born in the U.S. These nativist
  attitudes were also easily aligned with the white
  supremacist doctrine of the Ku Klux Klan. The KKK
  was revived during the 1920s, and they committed
  terrible crimes. The worst was a public display
  of torture called lynching.
• Immigration also spiked after the First World
  War. The influx of Eastern European immigrants
  raised fears that radicals or socialists
  would try to overthrow the government. Maybe, as
  Howard Zinn suggests, it was because they
  strengthened the unions and workers started to
  ban together and present a socialist challenge
  (Zinn, pp.381-2). Congress passed immigration
  quotas

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Writing Section Two

• 2. SECOND BODY SECTION your organization.
• A) When and by whom was it started?
• B) What kinds of people were involved?
• C) What specific things did it do to fight
  racism and prejudice early on?
• i. Specific example (maybe court case)
• ii. Specific example (maybe a protest)
• iii. Specific example (maybe education)
• iv. Specific example (maybe a publication)

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Section Two Its all about the examples
ACLU NAACP ADL GARVEY (UNIA)
1. Report on the Illegal Actions of the U.S. Department of Justice 1925. 2. Scopes Trial 1925. 3. Gitlow vs. Now York 1925 4. Whitney vs. California 1927 5. Brown vs. Board (1954) 6. Loving vs. Virginia (1967) 1. Pink Falkland case. 2. 1915 Birth of a Nation protest 3. 1920 conference in Atlanta. 4. 1922 ad campaign in newspapers against lynching. 5. Newspaper called the Crises. 1. Leo Frank case 1915. 2. 1920s challenge to Henry Ford. 3. Sigmund Livingstons pamphlets The Protocols The Dearborn Independent The Poison Pen, etc. 1. Conventions. 2. The Negro World newspaper. 3. Black Star Line. 4. Liberian Construction Loans project 5. Supporting Black owned businesses
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Conclusion Lets End This Thing Already (jk)

• Restate thesis in slightly different words.
• Remind reader of major findings (one or two
  examples you analyzed)
• Point to the future
• Directions for further research
• How the lessons learned can be applied in the
  modern world.

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Example Phrases

• Although the racism and discrimination of the
  1920s exemplified in the actions of the KKK or
  the Palmer Raids presented tremendous challenges,
  the NAACP worked not only to fight for the rights
  of African Americans but to pressure the United
  States to fulfill the promise of a more perfect
  union
• The ACLU may have lost the Scopes Trial in 1925,
  but the members did not loose hope and continued
  to fight to protect peoples civil liberties,
  especially where violations of the Constitution
  were concerned
• While the ADL began fighting anti-Semitism and
  religious intolerance, members quickly recognized
  important interconnections with other forms of
  injustice and oppression and their mission as
  well as their activism expanded its scope. We do
  not typically speak of being defamed in
  contemporary America, but the fight against
  discrimination is still very much alive!
• It may seem ironic at first that the leader of
  the famed movement for African American
  empowerment supported segregation. As has become
  clear, however, the beliefs of Marcus Garvey
  could not be further from the ignorant attitudes
  of bigoted or white supremacist supporters of Jim
  Crow and other forms of racial segregation in the
  United States

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Failure is Impossible

• Play adapted in 1995 by Rosemary H. Knower
• Narrator (biggest part)
• Abigail Adams
• Sarah Grimke
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton (bigger part)
• Fredrick Douglass
• Susan B. Anthony (bigger part)
• Sojourner Truth
• Francis Gage
• Lucy Stone
• Clara Barton
• Mr. Reagan of Texas
• Feeler Felix (man)
• Mary Ware Dennett
• Carrie Chapman Catt

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Focus Questions

• Using the arguments from the 1920s as well as
  your own opinions and experiences
• What are the differences between boys and girls?
• Where do those differences come from?
• Are men and women equal today?
• Why have women only been allowed to vote for the
  past 88 years when most men got the right to vote
  when this country was founded (1776)?

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Seminar questions

• 1. how many times did each person speak?
• 2. which students started the conversation?
• 3. how often does the group get off topic?
• 4. how many people make reference to the focus
  question?
• 5. Who speaks most girls or boys?
• 6. which comments moved the conversation forward
  got people to react?
• 7. what body language did you see? Gestures.
• 8. how do people disagree? Politely?
• 9. does anyone seem nervous or unwilling to
  participate?
• 10. do any students encourage other students?
• 11. How many people used another persons name
  when making a comment?
• 12. Who referred directly back to the video clips
  and to the focus question?
• 13. Who related it to experiences from their own
  life?

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THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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Causes
Growing African American Middle Class developed
as a result of improved educational and
employment opportunities for African Americans.
The Harlem section of New York became the center
of this new African American class.
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Causes
Political Agenda For Civil Rights by African
Americans leaders such as W.E.B. Du Bois,
Marcus Garvey and the NAACP helped to inspire
racial pride in the middle and working class.
Marcus Garvey pushed for the Back to Africa
movement
Du Bois, author of The Souls of Black Folks, was
instrumental in the foundation of the NAACP.
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Causes
Red Summer of 1919
There were 25 major race riots and at least 83
African Americans were lynched.
The Ku Klux Klan held over 200 meeting to
increase enrollment.
In response to the gains by African Americans,
many whites fought back during the summer of 1919.
What are the psychological effects of lynching
and cross burning on aspiring African Americans?
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Langston Hughes and Zora Neal Hurston
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The NAACP published The Crisis, a journal used to
share the literary works of African Americans.
Du Bois believed that artistic and literary work
could be used as a form of propaganda to help
combat racial stereotypes and gain new respect
for the race.
What message does this song, written by an
African American, send to the general public?
How do images like this hinder the efforts of
African Americans like Du Bois?