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Community Uplift

Community Uplift . NEXT GENERATION SCHOLARS SUMMER ACADEMY Wednesday JULY 2, 2014. TEACHER INTRODUCTION. Community agreements . Being PREPARED is being RESPECTFUL Respect to other people’s beliefs and opinions One Mic Rules of Discussion – No D-Bags Listen and Understand

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Community Uplift

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  1. Community Uplift NEXT GENERATION SCHOLARS SUMMER ACADEMY Wednesday JULY 2, 2014

  2. TEACHER INTRODUCTION

  3. Community agreements • Being PREPARED is being RESPECTFUL • Respect to other people’s beliefs and opinions • One Mic • Rules of Discussion – No D-Bags • Listen and Understand • Be Open-Minded • Add on to someone – Help them out • Step-Up Step Back • Snaps

  4. AGENDA – DAY ONE • Introduction to Community Uplift • Review of Syllabus • Unit One: What Makes a Social Movement • Unit Two: Movement Within History • Unit Three: Analyze to Build a Movement • Introductions to Each Other • What brought you to NGS? • What are Social Movements? • Collective Definition • Why are they important? • Close Out • Homework, Next Class, and Check-Out

  5. Introduction to Community Uplift • What are we uplifting? • Why do we need to transform communities? • What tools do we need in order to make change?

  6. Introduction to community uplift • Social Movements beginning in the 1960s – Beyond Martin Luther King Jr. • Analyze intentions behind leaders and organizations • Identify motives behind movements and what policies are revealed • Purpose of Social Movements • Why do movements happen? • Who drives them forward? • Are they successful? • Build Skills to Build Movements • Analyze your own communities • Identify policies and political decisions that affect you • Work collectively for social change

  7. Review of syllabus • Unit One: What Makes a Social Movement? • Analysis of the Civil Rights Movement • Understanding Activist Rhetoric • Unit Two: Movement Within History • Identifying social issues through history • What about our history? • Unit Three: Build a Movement • Analysis of immigration and education policy • Final Exam

  8. Who are we? • What brought you to Next Generation Scholars? • How do we define “Social Movement?” • Is Next Generation Scholars part of a “movement?”

  9. CLOSE OUT • Homework for Monday, July 7th • “We Took the Streets: Fighting for Latino Rights with the Young Lords” • Written by a Cuban-Puerto Rican activist in New York who participated in the Young Lords in New York in the late 60s. • Questions to Answer: • What triggered Mickey’s involvement? Why? • Define, in your own words, what an “activist engine” is. • Make a list of historical events that he illustrates in the chapter.

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