Scope "This is what Courage Looks Like” -additional resources

Consider the following essential questions:
What is courage?
How can people stand up for their rights?
What does it take to change an unfair law or practice?Why were Claudette Colvin and the Montgomery Bus Boycott so important to the civil rights movement?

Watch this short video on The Montgomery Bus Boycott


Around the same time Rosa Parks famously protested segregation by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, a teenager named Claudette Colvin went to jail in Montgomery, Ala., for doing the exact same thing. This is her story.

Additional Resources:
Click here to read Browder v. Gayle:  The Women Before Rosa Parks 
This is a summary of the Browder v. Gayle case mentioned in Scene 7 of the play. 
Click here to read primary document-Rules for Riding Desegregated Buses
Why  did leaders think these types of suggestions were necessary? 

Grammar Flip and Kahoot!

We will be using Grammar Flip again this year which is an online Grammar Program that allows students to work on grammar skills at their own pace.  You will need to sign up for your class using the link and class code below.  We will also be using Kahoot a site similar to Socrative to play games to reinofrce what you are learning in Grammar Flip. 
Click here to join Grammar Flip
Grade 8:  barnardla8
Grade 7:  barnardla7
Grade 6:  barnardla6 
Let's try Kahoot now.  Log in and join the fun!  Click here to go to Kahoot!  Wait until Ms. Casassa gives you the game code to play.

Ray Badbury's "All Summer in a Day"

Barnard School Students Analyze the 2016 Election

Click here to work on the Election Analysis Presentation

Resources
FiveThirtyEight
CNN Election Results
New York Times Election Results
Scholastic News Election News
Huffington Post Article on Election Results
NPR-How Trump Won According to Exit Polls

Ted Talk Tuesday-Tim Urban-Inside the mind of a master procrastinator

Click here to get a copy of the Ted Talk Graphic Organizer

November is National Novel Writing Month!

Click here to sign up for our classroom at the National Novel Witting Month website
Here's our access code: RYJBRGKA

Stuck?!  Not sure what to do next?  Click here to use this National Novel Writing Resource