Location | Activity Description | Google Earth Content |
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bombardment_of_Fort_Sumter,_1861.png | Look at the picture of Fort Sumter and learn one thing about it. Be ready to share with the class. | near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War. |
2. Emancipation Proclamation http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Emancipation_proclamation.jpg | In a Dictionary look up the word "emancipation" and tell 3 people what it means and have them sign their signature saying that you told them. | Whitehouse July 22, 1862 |
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvA0J_2ZpIQ | Watch the video and write down one thing that you don't understand, and one thing that you do understand that you liked | Gettysburg September 22, 1862 |
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVxaYz0SRMY | Watch Video and answer these questions: 1. Why do you think Martin Luther King decided to give his speech in Washington DC, near the White House at the place where a statue of Abraham Lincoln is? 2. Abraham Lincoln talked about freeing slaves in 1862. Martin Luther King talked about his children being treated fairly in 1963. That is over 100 years later. Why do you think after 100 years Black Americans were not being treated fairly still? 3. How do you think Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King are similar? 4. Even though he lived a hundred years before, do you think Abraham Lincoln helped Martin Luther King in his dream? | Washington DC August 28, 1963 |
Jason
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