History

What is the project? The project that I did in history was a music video displaying black history in the U.S. The software that I had to use was window movie maker. I had to include at least six statements highlighting a historical event, movement or person from the U.S. time line. At least two DRSS qualities were needed in this project. In the video a song was to be included that explained or connected to black history and the important lyrics related to it needed to appear at least twice in the video. Specific topics such as slave trade, slavery, 13th through 14th amendments, Plessey vs. Ferguson, Jim Crow laws, Brown vs. Board of Education, CORE/SNCC/SCLC, MLK, Malcolm X, Black Panthers, Civil Rights Legislation, Hip Hop, Affirmative Action and Contemp issues needed to be included. I also needed to have at least 10 meaningful photographs appear in the video, two meaningful visual art/symbols of groups like CORE or the Black Panthers.  What quality did I show during this project? That quality that I showed most during this project was inquiry. Inquiry to DRSS is when a student will use inquisitive thinking, not only asking questions, but acting upon those questions in an effort to discover the answers, accepting confusion, uncertainty and the risk of failure as part of the process. How I displayed this was by asking my teacher many questions like wasn't Malcolm X in the Black Panther movement and was he their leader? And what days did Martin Luther King go to jail and on what day did he die? What day did President Johnson sign the Civil Rights Legislation? Another way I displayed inquiry was when I put my file on my flash drive to finish my project, once returning to school and not being being able to open the file I did not give up; accepted confusion and completed my assignment. African American Experience Video