Tuesday, 2/21 HW

• ELA:
• Study vocab and spelling at your own pace
• Finish advertisement poster
• Math:
• Monday and Tuesday's tasks for HOTS POW
• SS:
• Study for Thurgood Marshall Test (it's 11 questions, and we have been done with the information for a while now - we just haven't been able to test!) See below.

Thurgood Marshall Study Guide

NAACP: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Civil Rights: the basic freedoms that all citizens deserve to have because they are citizens

Boycott: refusing to buy, sell, or use certain goods or services as a way to protest

Segregation: a system of keeping some people separate from others

Freedom of Conscience and Expression: the right to think and say as you wish

Debate: when several people discuss different sides of an issue in a formal way.

Segregation caused rules that kept certain groups of people from mixing with other groups.

Thurgood Marshall and Charles Hamilton Houston became good friends and law partners.  Together, the men worked for justice.

The court case was known as “Brown versus the Board of Education”  allowed African American to attend public schools with white children.

Thurgood Marshall served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America for 24 years.  Marshall was the first African American to become a Supreme Court judge.

Be able to explain how Thurgood Marshall helped improve civil rights.