Extra credit
You can explore one of the resources below to replace a missing or low-scoring assignment. You can turn in one extra credit assignment per 6 weeks.
Select a movie, TV show, podcast, or book then pick ONE way to show your learning:
1) Create a visual sketchnote explaining how what you learned connects to what we've learned in class AND what is going on in the world today
2) Write a 1 page paper summarizing what you learned, how it connects to the classroom and how it connects to what is going on in the world today
3) Meet me before school, during lunch or after school for a short discussion
Movies/Television
Gentefied
Argo
The Normal Heart
Selma
1917
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Adam Ruins Everything
When They See Us
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
Walkout
The Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj
Knock Down the House
Books (These titles are available to borrow from Ms. Sewing's library - click on the Library tab for more information)
March Book 1
March Book 2
March Book 3
Every Falling Star
They Called Us Enemy
The Hate U Give (also a GREAT film)
Dry
Like A Love Story
Podcasts (there are 100s of podcasts that connect to history, these are just some of my favorites)
Throughline
Episodes: On The Shoulders Of Giants, Mass Incarceration, Four Days in August
Code Switch
Episodes: Love & Walkouts, Charlottesville, Lies My Teacher Told Me & many more
Presidential
Episodes: Barack Obama, LBJ, FDR, Woodrow Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt & more
Serial Season 2
Episode #1: DUSTWUN
Uncivil
American History Tellers
Suggested Episode: Civil Rights New World A’Comin
Revisionist History
Episodes: The Foot Soldier of Birmingham, Miss Buchanan's Period Of Adjustment
Caliphate
Episode #1 The Reporter
If you have an idea of a movie, TV show, book or podcast you would like to use instead, please clear it with me before you submit your assignment!