Ms Pang's Class

Your goal is to teach elementary students about the Civil Rights Movement. They need to know about the movement’s most important events, the year in which those events happened and the significance of those events. It also needs to be written in language that is easy enough for a 5th grader to understand. These 5h grade students are about to learn about the life and accomplishments of Martin Luther King Jr. and they need to know what happened during his lifetime.

As a historian you are working with yet  another young historian in our class to explain ONE main event during the Civil Rights Movement. Your work will be part of a larger class timeline. Please use the links to the following events below to help you complete your research.

1954, Brown v. Board of Education

B. v B. thinkquest

Teaching Tolerance Website

Chicanos and Brown v. Board

1955, Mississippi and the Emmett Till Case

the murder of Emmett Till

14 year old Emmett Till is killed

1955, Montgomery Bus Boycott & Rosa Parks

Kids for King Website

They Changed the World

1957, Desegregation at Little Rock Central High School

Little Rock Central High School Website

Little Rock 9 Stand up for their Rights

1960, Sit-In Campaign Greensboro, North Carolina

Greensboro Sit-Ins

Sit-Ins

1961, Freedom Rides

CORE website about freedom rides

SNCC Website about Freedom rides

1962 Mississippi Riot

Turbulent Times

BBC on the Mississippi Race Riots

James H. Meredith – first black student to enroll at Univ. of Mississippi

1963 Segregation & Protests in Birmingham, Alabama

Protests in Birmingham

Birmingham, the center of the Civil Rights Movement

Powerful Days – The Photography of Charles Moore

1963 Bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

We Shall Overcome – About the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church

In Memory of the Four Little Girls

NPR’s report on the bombing in 1963

We Shall Overcome – History of the Bombing

1963, August 28th March on Washington

Time for Kids Special

Kids for King

MLK’s I Have a Dream Speech

1963, November 22nd Assasination of President Kennedy

Wikipedia on Assassination of JFK

in the Fifties

1964, July 2nd The Civil Rights Act

Civil Rights Act

Time For Kids Article

Civil Rights Act Wikipedia

1965, February 21st Assassination of Malcolm X

Biography of Malcolm X

Time for Kids Article Malcolm X

1965 Selma Bloody Sunday & Police Brutality

Selma to Montgomery March

Video – Marking the Anniversary of Bloody Sunday

“I was hit in the head by a statetrooper.” PBS Eyes on the Prize, click on the Video link.

1965, Voting rights Act

You had to take a literacy test to vote? Take the test and see if you can pass.

Voting Rights Act Wikipedia

Time for Kids

1968, April 4th Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Time for Kids – Martin Luther King, Jr. is Killed

Wikipedia – MLK Assassination

Can’t wait to see what you learn and the timeline we create by the end of this project.

Ms. Pang

“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all. Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.” -Michelangelo

The Italian Renaissance was a wonderful time in history for the arts and learning. You will have the opportunity to learn about the life, talents and contributions of an artist or writer from this time in history. You will learn how they were inspired in their work, the sacrifices that they were required to make and how individuals of that time felt about their work. You will also analyze how this artist or writer demonstrates how the growth of commerce, city-states and Humanism supported the flowering of the Renaissance.

Don’t forget to enjoy the artwork and the writing.

You and a partner will create a visual and written presentation about one artist or writer from the Renaissance. What you will find below are a list of the links for the artists and writers. Enjoy your webquesting!

Michelangelo Buonorotti

Life and Accomplishments

Sistine Chapel

Wikipedia

Leonardo da Vinci

Inventor’s Workshop

Leonardo’s Writing

Leonardo What, Where, When?

Leonardo Biography

Boticelli

Botticelli’s Artworks

Brief Biography

Fact Monster Biography

Donatello

Life of an Artist

Donatello Biography

PBS short biography

Raphael

Biography and Works

Artworks

Miguel Cervantes

Biography

Cervantes’ Quotes

Francesco Petrarch – The Father of Humanism

biography

history for kids site

biography

Machiavelli

Biography

Who was Machiavelli?

Wikipedia

William Shakespeare

Information

MIT Complete Works of Shakespeare

Timeline of Shakespeare’s Life

The Shakespeare Debate
Pictures of art created by many of the artists can be found at:

PBS Medici Gallery
Web Gallery of Art

Happy Chinese New Year!

Apologies for not having written a post since the beginning of 2010. I gave myself a few weeks knowing that I could wish all of you a happy new year in February! My family and I will be celebrating the start of the Lunar New Year with a spectacular dinner on Saturday night. Sunday will be the first official day of the Year of the Tiger. I expect a few red envelopes from my elders, candies wrapped in red, and family coming by to wish us the best in the new year.

Many students, orange and green, have been asking – “Are we still blogging Ms?”. The answer is yes, yes and yes.

I am continually amazed by the quality and beauty of your writing. I think its because aside from your English assignments some of you are busy, writing your poetry, your songs and short stories.

In January, we completed two important pieces of writing:

- This I Believe Statements (inspired by NPR)

- Research Report

You should be extremely proud of your growth as writers. Be prepared to post samples of your writing onto your blog before the end of February! And Happy New Year – I wish all of you joy and the realization of grand dreams.

There are two more weeks of school left and so much is going on at school. Many of our Orange and Green students are active leaders in Council, Honor’s Band and Honor’s Drama. So I  need to remind you of their events! Parents and students, give them your support!

* MAKO Family Night, Tues. Dec 8th
* Christmas Evening Concerts, Weds. Dec 9th and Fri. Dec 11th
* Christmas Drama (During School), Weds. Dec 16th, Thurs. Dec 17th
Hopefully we can attend this one – waiting to see if our class gets picked

While all of that is going on – Students! – you still have a lot of work left to do and a test to prepare for:

*  7th Grade LAUSD History Test
* Post #2 on your individual blogs by Friday!
* The Giver Projects

Keep up all of your hard work. Oh, and remember to check out the English and History pages here for updates as you do your homework/study.

Enjoy the last two weeks of school with your friends and teachers. By the time Friday, December 18th comes around, you’ll feel like you earned your winter vacation.

Dear Parents & Guardians,

Thank you to all the families that took the time to visit Ms. Ceballos’ classroom and mine.

I hope you enjoyed learning about what your child is learning and how your child is doing with their studies, their friends and with us. I also hope that you’ll be visiting this class website and your child’s blog regularly!

I’m thankful that this is our second year working together. And I’m thankful that you are so patient, understanding and involved.

Have a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving weekend!

I’ll be baking my first turkey for my family tomorrow so, wish me luck! If things turn out OK, I’ll post some photos!

Ms. Pang

Mexico was not always Mexico. Before it was a small city called Tenochitlan. Many years ago, it was the Aztec empire. The Aztec empire was very important in their time because they were advanced in many things just like the Mayans. They were advanced because like the Mayans, they had both a solar and a sacred calendar. Also they had their own farming techniques. The Aztecs were conquered because of this. Hernan Cortez conquered them because he wanted to steal all of their gold. Also, he conquered them because when he arrived, the Aztec empire had reached its maximal height.

The Aztecs had their own religious beliefs and ceremonies. They believed in many gods so that makes them polytheistic.They performed a lot of human sacrafice and also had blood sacrafice. They offered the gods food and flowers in religious ceremonies as people sang and danced.

College is an important place were you could go. College is the pass for the future. It will help you with whatever good job there is. Some good college that are in U.S. are Harvard, UCLA, USC, and Johns Hopkins University. These are some very prestigious schools. If you prefer other colleges,its fine but these colleges are very good colleges. College is very good for you to get in ,because they help you get jobs where you get paid well and jobs that you want.

Arnold

Hey my name is Brian from the green class 

five things i like about science are this

1.You get to make cool experiments

2.You find out more about things you don’t know

3.You get to research stuff

4.You get to investigate how something works or other things

5.And you get to use cool stuff for example microscopes

Hey this is Christopher from the Green Class.

Five things that makes basketball great are

1. making points
2. doing cool tricks
3. Helping your team win
4. winning so you can win the championship
5. playing defense

Dear Parents,

Today I sent home the Blog Permission slip with your child’s weekly reading log.

Read it over, feel free to ask me or send me any questions about the blogging project and definitely take time to look at this website.

With your permission, we (as a class) will begin designing our individual blogs, learning how to be safe online, learning how to post and comment on blogs – starting next week!

Thank you!

Ms. Pang

Edublog Agreement