Read in text pp. 311-336

BACKGROUND ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT

The Civil Rights Movement 1955-1965: Introduction

Civil Rights Movement Timeline

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Legislation that Increased Women's Rights: Women's History

  National Organization for Women  just look at one or two links

Feminist Consciousness after the Women's Movement September 2002 Barbara Epstein

Know the following terms:  affirmative action; civil rights;  class action;  de facto segregation; de jure segregation;  grandfather clause;  Jim Crow laws;  literacy test; poll tax;  separate-but-equal doctrine;  strict scrutiny;  skeptical scrutiny;  substantiality test;

The materials in this chapter will be part of Test Three to be taken Nov. 29- Dec. 2

FORMAT OF RESPONSE QUESTIONS:
      1. Select one of the following questions.
      2. Your answer should be at least 200 words.
      3. Choose  a simple font (arial, courier), font size 10 or 12.
      4.  Be sure to save your work.
      5. Your word should be a Word document or saved as a Rich text file,Microsoft Office 2007 – If you are using this new version of Word you may need to save your documents as Microsoft Office 2003 documents with the .doc rather than the .docx extension.  If you are using Microsoft Works or WordPerfect word processing program, save your file and change the “save file as” to Rich Text Format.  This will allow your document to be opened by your instructor using any word processing program.     
      6. Send this question and the other from Chapter 11 as a single document using the WebCT Assignment link.
      7.  There is a five (5)point penalty for late work.  Work will not be accepted two ( 2) days after the date due.

GRADING RESPONSE QUESTION:
  1. on the content of the response.
  2.  the mechanics of the answer.  (the Edited English standard will be used see below). 
  3. 20 points for the question.

Select one of the following Response Questions: Due Nov. 14 ( Fri.12:00 noon). 

1.  Would there have been a different response to the civil rights movement if it had not be based ont he philosophy of non-violence?

2.  Why do women not vote as a bloc?  Does this mean the women's movement has failed?

3.  Does the Women's movement have a single goal or many?  What is/are the goal(s)? Is a Women's movement needed today? why/why not?

Grading Standard  Edited American English is the form of English which is used in newspapers and magazines, in textbooks and fiction works, and in memos and letters.

Type I:  Gross Errors (-10 pts. each)

              A. fragment (ex.   Because I had a flat tire.)

              B. lack of subject/verb agreement (ex. The man were having a nervous breakdown.)

              C. fused/run-on sentence (ex. I had no choice I had to take the test.)

              D. incorrect tense or verb form (ex. The boy gone to the store for his father.)

Type II:  Major Errors (-5 pts. each)

              A. comma between subject and verb(comma fault) (ex. The mother,gave her son the apple.)

                 B. comma splice (ex. We went to the store,we  got some bread and milk.)

                 C. failure to show possession (ex. My husband pants are dirty.)

                  D. no indentation at beginning of paragraph and incorrect paragraph form.

Type III: Minor Errors ( -2 pts. each)

               A. misspelled words or incorrect capitalization

                B. misused homonyms or words used incorrectly

               C. commas added unnecessarily or commas lacking

               D. punctuation missing or incorrect

                E. incorrect pronoun agreement

               F. misleading pronoun reference

               G. unnecessary shift of tense or person

               H. words left out/dangling or misplaced modifiers.