Monday - January 17, 2k22 -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day -- No School
In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles.
In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience and inspiring his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, “l Have a Dream”, he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson.
King was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.
Historically speaking, who has generally been the most important person in a “nation’s” history?
What was the Bastille?
Who made up 90% of France's population in the 1700s?
Who were the bourgeoisie?
How did the Estate System truly divide France?
What was the Enlightenment?
What was the National Assembly and what did they do?
What is a constitutional monarchy?
What happened to King Louis XVI in January 1793?
Who were the Jacobins?
Who was Robespierre?
What made the events in France in the 1780s-1790s a revolution?
How did these events prove to be revolutionary?
How could France have experienced a revolution through a different way? (opinionated)
In what ways was the revolution a success? In what ways was the revolution a failure? (opinionated)
Day 3 & 4
In Class: Go over the French Revolution Q's and then introduce the Revolutions Essay (Click Me!). Day 3/4 you will work on the essay. The Revolutions Essay is due Day 1 of next week -- Jan 18/19 depending on when you have class. You will have that class period to work on the essay.
