TERM 3/Week 5 Pages 146 - 155

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Click here to watch the video and answer the question,

If these hands could talk, what would they say about life as a worker in the tomato fields?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlcIAfkXklk 
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ACTIVITY - Use the vocabulary list and questions to help you with the reading. Once you've completed the reading and questions, use the vocabulary in your own sentences or in one paragraph that summarizes what you read.  

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 PAGES 148-149
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You will have to watch the first 36 minutes of the HBO film, Walkout, in order to complete the questions and reflection below.  See me with a USB stick and I can load the film.

 

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PAGES 150-151

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Watch the news clip here (or below) and answer:

1. List THREE reasons why these people in Minneapolis are supporting Montes, who was arrested in L.A.?

2. What steps do you think they took to organize this demonstration?

ACTIVITY - Page 151

   Choose at least FOUR of the nine interview questions and summarize Montes’ answers.

USEFUL VOCABULARY

Assimilation: To absorb and integrate into society or culture

Nationalist (in this context): Someone who wants political independence for a group of people. 

Provocateurs: One who provokes (incites anger).

Self-determination: free choice of one's own actions without external help.

Reform (in this context): To improve the social or political system.

Solidarity: unity

REFLECTION - Bottom 1/2 150

1.According to Carlos Montes, what were the two major goals of the Brown Berets?

2.What are at least two lessons we can learn from the Brown Berets and Montes?

3.If you could talk to Carlos Montes, what more would you ask him?

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Watch the video link here, Kony 2012, and answer the following questions. Pay CLOSE attention to the strategies this group uses in order to bring about change. 

HOMEWORK - DUE MONDAY (See homework page on the yellow tab at the top of this page.)