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Saturday, June 05, 2010

Enriched GabCasts on Intolerance & Reflections on a Civil Rights Movement

Enriched students: Here is a collection of GabCasts from student's reflections over the past year to provide an overview of the African-American Civil Rights Movement and how this historic movement continues to influence our lives today. Hope this helps to inspire you and assists you in creating your own reflection on Martin Luther King Jr's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail": its lessons, its influence, and its continued relevance in society today as portions of our nation continue to face discrimination. Good Luck, Have Fun, & Enjoy. I look forward to listening to your audio journal reflections over the next week.

Gabcast! Century History Link (Mrs. Link's Class PodCasts & Audio Journals) #256 - Andrew G. History of Intolerance Reflection
This first GabCast was from earlier this school year as we studied the revival of the KKK in the early 1900's following WWI. Included topics: The Duluth Lynchings, Rosewood, Leo Frank, and comparisons to modern intolerance.



Gabcast! Century History Link (Mrs. Link's Class PodCasts & Audio Journals) #104 - Jeanette - Memories of Murder Dialogue Poem - The Walker
This gabcast was done last year during our civil rights unit as students created their own dialogue poem to document the murder of one of the many martyrs of the African-American Civil Rights Movement. Students were given the opportunity to write their own poem, and if they wished to cast their own readers for the recording of the story showing two perspectives of these tragic events in American History.



Gabcast! Century History Link (Mrs. Link's Class PodCasts & Audio Journals) #147 - Molly - Reflection on MLK's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
This gabcast is an example of the gabcast you are currently working on yourself. A reflection on Dr. King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Please enjoy listening to these select examples and of course if you would like, take the time to explore many of the other student's works on our class podcasting station: Century History Link which can be found on iTunes or by following the links from the examples provided in this post. Have a wonderful weekend and I will see you on Monday.

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We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.
-Gerda Lerner

History, we can confidently assert, is useful in the sense that art and music, poetry and flowers, religion and philosophy are useful. Without it -- as with these -- life would be poorer and meaner; without it we should be denied some of those intellectual and moral experiences which give meaning and richness to life. Surely it is no accident that the study of history has been the solace of many of the noblest minds of every generation.
-Henry Steele Commager

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
-Robert F. Kennedy