Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Leadership Projects

The students have been studying leadership using the Changing Tomorrow 1 curriculum. Here are some of the projects, they completed.

Grant made a comic on Janseh Dwayne Onfrey.


Braden made a documentary. Click the link below to access the YouTube video.

Emily wrote an essay on Rosa Parks.
Rosa Parks
Rosa parks was a 42 year old woman. She refused to give up her seat to a white man on a
public bus, which is violating the racial segregation laws. She was arrested for breaking the law,
and not giving up her seat. She didn’t get up for the white man, so she was arrested. It all
happened in 1955. She took a risk to change the laws.
She had a husband named Raymond Parks. She had no children either. She had a brother
named Sylvester. Her parents were separated when she was the age of two. Sadly her
grandparents were slaves.
She was a leader in the civil rights movement. The boycott took 381 days. She also began
the bus boycott. She was an activists in the NAACP. She motivated others to join the cause.
She was called the “mother of the civil rights movement”. She communicated to people during
this.
She was loyal, smart, and brave. She was born on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee Alabama.
She died on October 24, 2005, Detroit Michigan. She was buried on November 2, 2005, at
Woodlawn cemetery.
She was a African American only child. Her Husband ‘Raymond Parks’ Encouraged her to
go back to high school to get a diploma. She persevered and went to highschool. She stood up
for her rights. She motivated others. She was a great person. She died of natural causes. Her
legacies were, african american rights that she left behind. .Her vision was she wanted african
american rights,and that is what she got.

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