Want Extra Credit?
1) Watch any of these fabulous movies on the 1950s & 1960s. Cold War, Civil Rights & Sports.
2) Type out a two page paper in google docs, double spaced summary of plot and characters with a personal reflection at the end. Share that to me at: mr.kocher1968@gmail.com
4) New Deadline : Sunday, April 19th, end of the first two weeks of extra credit and enrichment.
On Monday, April 20th we start again with graded assignments and instruction online. April 6-19 is to practice online engagement, your personal enrichment and Extra Credit, so you are comfortable and ready to go full speed on April 20. Teachers are also in training the first two weeks in order to deliver online instruction to You.
 Russia just launched Sputnik and boys in a local coal mining town make their own rocket.
 Russians invade America and the high school football team bands together to defeat the invaders.
 McCarthyism had a witch hunt for Communists and Jim Carey gets caught as a suspect.
 The Montgomery bus boycott is on and the black maids have to walk miles to work. Whoopi Goldberg is awesome.
 Black maids in the South secretly come together to write a book about the white women they work for. Academy award nomination for Best Film.
 A Negro from the South gets a job as Butler in the White House. He sees many Presidents come and go. Can he really say what he thinks?
 Medgar Evers is murdered and the violence of segregation tears this town and nation apart.
 Civil Rights activists are victims of the Klu Klux Klan. Powerful and dramatic.
 Powerful life story of Malcolm X. Martin Luther King was a Christian minister on the streets preaching non-violence. Malcolm X was Muslim with a different philosophy. Could these men ever agree on what was best for Black America?
 A high school football team in the early 1970's is torn apart by racism and discrimination. Can they survive to be Champions?
 A team of Black students go all the way to Harvard for the Debate Championship, led by James Farmer, the founder of C.O.R.E. A feel good movie!
 This mission to the moon ends in near disaster. Can they make it back to earth safely. Academy award winner.
 The story of JFK's assassination in Dallas, Texas. Who killed JFK?
 Jackie Robinson becomes the first Black to play in Major League Baseball. Civil Rights goes to bat for the Dodgers.
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