Activity 1
For this activity, please imagine that you are Mr Mandela and that you are living at Robben Island prison. You have been given a journal and each night you write in it.
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Activity 2
For this activity, we would like you to explore the School Strike for Climate Australia website. List three facts (things) that you learned, and include a photograph of something that you are doing around home to help the environment.
1) Students are running a website showing progress of what they are doing to help with climate change.
2) The students go on strike at school.
3) Most of the school students behind the website had not met in person before.
2) The students go on strike at school.
3) Most of the school students behind the website had not met in person before.
We're throwing out our rubbish into a skip!!
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Activity 3
For this activity, please consider the problem that black men and women faced in America at this time. What did Rosa Parks do about the problem? How did other people react?
Rosa Parks is a phenomenal African American woman who helped eradicate the Jim Crow laws. Rosa Parks was tired of black people not getting the same treatment as the whites so one day after work she got on the bus and sat at the front (back then the front seats were reserved for white people and the back seats were for the black people).
When a white passenger came on board all the black people at the front had to move; all except Rosa obliged. Even after being repeatedly told to move Rosa didn't listen so she was arrested. Even then she refused to pay her fine saying that the law was in the wrong, not her.
After word spread about how Rosa was going on trial, from December 5 1955 (the date of her trial), black citizens refused to travel on buses. As African American's made up 70% of bus users, the city's transport services began to struggle.
The white population were not happy with this movement, some lashed out with dangerous and violent acts.
Nonetheless, the protestors stood strong and after 381 days (13 November 1956) of boycotting the buses the Supreme Court ruled that Alabama's racial segragation laws weren't valid and should not be recognised. With such a wonderful victory, Rosa Parks was named as "the mother of the civil rights movement".
Her story doesn't end there though. After being continiously threatened, Rosa and her husband, Raymond, moved to Detroit and started fighting for civil rights there.
I absoulutely loved reading about Rosa Parks and then writing about her.
Rosa Parks is a phenomenal African American woman who helped eradicate the Jim Crow laws. Rosa Parks was tired of black people not getting the same treatment as the whites so one day after work she got on the bus and sat at the front (back then the front seats were reserved for white people and the back seats were for the black people).
When a white passenger came on board all the black people at the front had to move; all except Rosa obliged. Even after being repeatedly told to move Rosa didn't listen so she was arrested. Even then she refused to pay her fine saying that the law was in the wrong, not her.
After word spread about how Rosa was going on trial, from December 5 1955 (the date of her trial), black citizens refused to travel on buses. As African American's made up 70% of bus users, the city's transport services began to struggle.
The white population were not happy with this movement, some lashed out with dangerous and violent acts.
Nonetheless, the protestors stood strong and after 381 days (13 November 1956) of boycotting the buses the Supreme Court ruled that Alabama's racial segragation laws weren't valid and should not be recognised. With such a wonderful victory, Rosa Parks was named as "the mother of the civil rights movement".
Her story doesn't end there though. After being continiously threatened, Rosa and her husband, Raymond, moved to Detroit and started fighting for civil rights there.
I absoulutely loved reading about Rosa Parks and then writing about her.
4 comments:
Great blog posts Riiana - which one was your favourite to complete? Keep blogging, and commenting on others, to increase your chance of winning one of the awesome prizes and to keep up your learning over the school break!
Hi Mrs Collins!
Out of these three my favourite one was the third activity. Thank you for commenting :D
Sincerely,
Riiana
Hi Riiana,
I liked how you described Rosa Parks as a phenomenal African American woman that helped eradicate racist laws. I also liked how you gave information on what happened after the bus incident. Do you think you could do what she did?
Kia ora Alex,
I would like to think that I'd be able to make such an impact like Rosa Parks did. Who knows what the future holds :)
- Riiana
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