Facing History and Ourselves

Unit Test—Review Sheet

Ms. Melad

Unit One: Facing History of United States—focus on Segregation and Equity/Inequity in Education

Murder of Emmett Till—consult video note sheet for key people and events—reopening of Civil Rights-era cases

“A Framework for Considering Injustice or Atrocity”—this is the sheet that identifies different “roles” of people (victim, perpetrator, etc.)

Eye of the Storm (Blue Eye/Brown Eye classroom experiment)

Integration of Little Rock Central HS—consult documentary note sheet, as well as document chart

Busing in Boston—consult documentary note sheet, as well as supplementary readings

Jonathan Kozol (his educational findings and relevant evidence)

*******You will have no more than 10 multiple choice questions—the rest of this test will be writing. If you are taking this course for Honors credit, you will be writing an essay. If you are taking this course for CP credit, you will be writing a number of short answer/ID questions.*********

Themes for everyone to consider in light of the cases we have studied:

• Role of the Media
• Role of political leadership vs. community leadership (or other forms of less formal “leadership”)
• The actions of individuals (and how they would fit into the “Framework for Considering Injustice”)
• Kozol’s findings—what are the implications? What are the solutions? More than 50 years after the Brown vs. Board of Ed decision, just how much progress has been made?
• Is it possible to bring “justice” to a person (or a people) after grave injustice has been done?
• Mob mentality—group identity vs. individual identity
• Impact of environment and upbringing on an individual’s view