221+Agenda+-+10.20.15

In ELA classrooms -
 * writing conferences

Lesson Planning Practice:

[|CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.6] (ELA) Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.

[|CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.6-8.6] (History)

Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author's point of view or purpose (e.g., loaded language, inclusion or avoidance of particular facts).

GLE: 4.4.1 Analyzes and applies understanding of how specific attributes of a musical work reflect and/or influence culture and history (Music)

GLE: 4.4.1 Analyzes and evaluates how a work of theatre reflects and/or influences culture, place, and history. (Theater)

"At first, the students at the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins remained silent, as a contrast to the jeers of the whites around them and to avoid arrest for disorderly conduct. Once they realized that they would be inevitably arrested, they introduced songs to their protests. "I'm Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table" took a traditional religious tune and added contemporary verses by members of [|SNCC] . The original spiritual lines, like "I'm gonna sit at the welcome table" and "I'm gonna walk these streets of glory," were matched with "I'm gonna sit at Woolworth's lunch counter." The contrast between the earthbound and the heavenly made the protesters' goals less elusive; their local sit-ins were the first step toward important changes in society."

I'm Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table
** Performed by Guy and Candie Carawan ** I'm gonna sit at the welcome table, I'm gonna sit at the welcome table one of these days. Hallelujah! I'm gonna sit at the welcome table,

I'm gonna sit at the welcome table one of these days. I'm gonna feast on milk and honey, I'm gonna feast on milk and honey one of these days, Hallelujah!

I'm gonna feast on milk and honey, I'm gonna feast on milk and honey one of these days. I'm gonna sit at the Woolworth counter, I'm gonna sit at the Woolworth counter one of these days, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #55514c; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;">Hallelujah!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #55514c; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I'm gonna sit at the Woolworth counter (and eat!), <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #55514c; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;">I'm gonna sit at the Woolworth counter one of these days.

=<span style="color: #674912; font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Nashville Overview - = http://www.aforcemorepowerful.org/films/afmp/stories/nashville.php <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 12px;">In 1960, young black college students face a dilemma. While their schools teach the constitutional right of equality under the law, their off-campus surroundings in the heavily segregated city of Nashville starkly refute that premise. State-sponsored "Jim Crow" laws govern many aspects of life, and Nashville's black and white communities are kept apart.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Enter James Lawson, a young black minister from Ohio who understands Gandhi's nonviolent legacy and gives the students the organization, discipline, and strategies they sorely need. Very few people take Gandhi as seriously as Lawson does. Growing up in the 1930s and 1940s, he follows the work of Gandhi in the newspapers. After spending several years in India studying with Gandhi's disciples, he returns to the United States in 1956, determined to share Gandhi's methods with African Americans. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Echoing Gandhi's attack on the salt tax as an emotional rallying point, Lawson turns his attention to Nashville's segregated lunch counters, typically situated in department stores and five-and-dimes that sell goods to black patrons, but draw the line at serving them a cup of coffee. After months of rigorous training to help students withstand the taunts, slurs and blows of the city's staunchest segregationists, Lawson's students descend on the lunch counters, prompting white businesspeople to shut down rather than serve them.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 12px;">At first, the townspeople dismiss the sit-ins as a passing fad. When it becomes apparent that the students are in for the long haul, they begin to incur the wrath of racist vigilantes. Outraged by the city's heavy-handed treatment and incarceration of peaceful, well-dressed young men and women, Nashville's rank-and-file black citizenry boycott the city's white-owned businesses, delivering a profound economic blow. White customers, repulsed by the atmosphere generated by segregation extremists, also stay away, adding to the mounting losses.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 12px;">Coming to grips with the futility of mass arrests, a deluge of negative national publicity, and a shocking attempt on the life of a prominent black attorney, Nashville Mayor Ben West relents, asking the city's department stores to desegregate the lunch counters immediately.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 12px;">**Housekeeping:**
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"> **P.E.T. - Inquiry-Based Instruction**
 * <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"> **Review for Thursday; Written product due on Monday**