Lynching Mini-Project Sam Balka

Lynching Mini Project- Alessandra Angelini

Ariele's Lynching Poem

Lynching :: Strange Fruit, Without Sanctuary, & a Mini-Project

Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday

Southern trees bear strange fruit

Blood on the leaves

Blood at the root

Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze

Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees

Pastoral scene of the gallant south

The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth

The scent of magnolia sweet and fresh

Then the sudden smell of burning flesh

Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck
for the rain to gather
for the wind to suck
for the sun to rot
for the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop

Composed by Abel Meeropol (aka Lewis Allan)

Originally sung by: Billie Holiday

"Between 1882 and 1903, 2,060 blacks were lynched in the United States. Some of the black victims were children and pregnant women; many were burned alive at the stake; others were castrated with axes or knives, blinded with hot pokers, or decapitated."                                                 

Amistad Digital Resource, Columbia University

Lynching Resources:

Statistics & Timelines:

• Lynching in America:  Statistics, Information, Images [use this site for choice A]

Photographs:

• Without Sanctuary [use this site for choice B]

Ida B. Wells: 

• Biography of Ida B. Wells

"One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap." ~ Ida B. Wells 

• Video about Ida B. Wells

PBS Site about Strange Fruit

Lynching mini-project overview and rubric

  

Examples of projects from previous classes:

Danielle's ecphrasis My Fading Family

Jake's ecphrasis I'm Sorry

Sara's ecphrasis Bad Romance

How to post your glog correctly on the blog:

• Grab the embed code (not the URL) from your glog.  
• Go to NEW POST here on the blog (you'll need to be logged in to Blogger).
• Choose HTML instead of Compose
• Paste the embed code
• Change the percentage in the code:  CHANGE SCALE =100 to SCALE=75, CHANGE WIDTH=960 to  720, CHANGE HEIGHT=1300 to 975

The Jim Crow Era: How did early movies shape ideas about race & gender?

The Birth of a Nation

1915

190 minutes long

*fast fact* - first movie to be shown in the White House
*fast fact* - original title was The Clansman

Clip #1:

Clip #2:

Wondering how African-Americans and their allies responded?

Encyclopedia of American Race Riots by Walter C. Rucker and James N. Upton

Searcheeze

You are going to use Searcheeze to store, organize, and share resources for your research paper.  Today we want you to set up your Searcheeze account and learn how to use it.

First we'll watch this introductory video about Searcheeze.

Now to set up your account:

1.  Go to www.searcheeze.com

2.  Create an account with a username and password that you will remember

3.  Set up your topic

4.  Make your topic PUBLISHED

5.  Invite Kristen and Mr. Kelly to be collaborators so that we can help you!

The next thing you need to do is put the Searcheeze bookmarklet on your browser bar.  Follow the directions on Searcheeze.  You will want to repeat this on your home computer too!

Now you're ready to start searching for resources and adding them to your Searcheeze topic.  There are some really useful general sites for historical research that you should visit early on.  Be sure to check them out in the glog below.  

Research Paper - Statement of Purpose

EMAIL YOUR STATEMENT OF PURPOSE TO BOTH TEACHERS BY 7 PM ON WEDNESDAY 3/21!

A statement of purpose is a beefy paragraph or two which states, in some detail, what you want to learn about in your research project and how you plan to learn it.   As you can see in the example below, a statement of purpose often includes many questions.

Statement of Purpose Example

I will be researching the Crusades for my research paper.  I’ve often heard them mentioned when people talk about fighting in the Middle East now.  I’ve always been fascinated with the Middle East; this is an area of the world that I’d love to see someday.  I don’t know too much about the Crusades other than that it involved Europeans and Arabs and that they were fighting over the Holy Land.  This happened a long time ago, I think in the 1200-1300s.  I want to know why Christians and Muslims fought so hard with each other during the Middle Ages.  I want to know what exactly they were fighting about, how they fought, where they fought and what the results were.  What kinds of weapons did they use?  How did the Crusades affect life at home for both Europeans and Arabs?  Did any women fight?  What about children?  I also want to how, if at all, the Crusades have influenced Muslim-Christian relations today.  For example, did 9-11 have anything to do with the Crusades?  Is the Israel-Palestine conflict shaped by this history too?  Are we still fighting over stuff from the 1100s?  That is kind of what I have inferred from things people have said, but I want to decide for myself if this is true.

I will rely on primary and secondary sources for my research.  Because the Catholic Church was involved, I’m pretty sure I can find some documents from priests and popes that will relate to this topic.  I also think there are pictures of the weapons and armor that I can find, as well as maps.  My father used to teach a Sunday School class about the Crusades so I will also ask him for help.   He might know some good books that I can read.  I will also look on YouTube.  Even though it’s not always the most reliable, it helps me to visualize things and sometimes I can find documentary excerpts there.  Finally, I found a young adult book called Babylonne that takes place in the Middle Ages and involves events from the Crusades.  This always helps me to understand the history that I am trying to learn.  I am going to order the book from Barnesandnoble.com.