Black Radicals

Ein Unterrichtsprojekt für das Fach Englisch in der Oberstufe. Ursprünglich von 2003, aktualisiert in 2013.

Ach ja: Nachdem das alles doch eine ganze Weile her ist, kann es durchaus sein, dass manche der Links nicht mehr funktionieren. So it goes ...

Vorbemerkungen

Das Unterrichtsprojekt "Black Radicals" ist auf etwa 10-12 Doppelstunden angelegt. Es verfolgt das Konzept des "Blended Learning" mit Arbeitsphasen im EDV-Raum, im ('normalen') Klassenzimmer und zu Hause (mit Zugriff auf eine E-Learning Plattform oder zumindest ein Tausch- oder Projektverzeichnis für die Lerngruppe).

Materialien können aus lizenzrechtlichen Gründen meist nur als Link zur Verfügung gestellt werden. Wer uneingeschränkt mit diesem iBook arbeiten will braucht deshalb eine ständige Internetverbindung.

Das Projekt wurde zum ersten Mal in den späten 1990er Jahren mit einem Leistungskurs Englisch durchgeführt. Ich habe es seitdem aktualisiert, auf die Arbeit mit einer Lernplattform abgestimmt (ursprünglich lo-net, später Moodle) und die Materialien so geändert, dass sie im Internet erreichbar sind. Trotzdem ist nicht auszuschließen, dass der eine oder andere Link ins Leere läuft. Das geht zwar auf meine Kappe, seien Sie aber trotzdem nachsichtig mit mir ...

Das Projekt ist ergebnis- und handlungsorientiert angelegt und setzt auf selbstorganisiertes Lernen. Es verfolgt das Konzept des "Blended Learning" mit Arbeitsphasen im EDV-Raum, im Klassenzimmer und zu Hause (mit Zugriff auf eine E-Learning Plattform oder zumindest ein Tausch- oder Projektverzeichnis für die Lerngruppe).

Informationen zum Autor

Ulrich Bauer hat fast 40 Jahre die Fächer Politik, Englisch und Geschichte an einem Stuttgarter Gymnasium unterrichtet. Seit den 1990er Jahren beschäftigte er sich schwerpunktmäßig mit den Themen Internet/Multimedia und schulische Computernetze. Er lebt in Stuttgart und an der irischen Westküste.

Projektphasen

Pre-Net Activities: Black Views of America

Einstieg im Klassenzimmer (1 Doppelstunde)
Textarbeit mit 3 Gedichten und 3 relativ kurzen Texten
Erste Problematisierung des Themas

Net-Activities: Three Black Radicals of the 1960s and 1970s

Arbeit im EDV-Raum (ca. 4 Doppelstunden)
Angeleitete Internetrecherche in Kleingruppen
Material sammeln und für die Präsentation vorbereiten/strukturieren
Arbeiten mit Multimedia (Audio, Video)
selbstständiges Arbeiten

Post-Net Activities: Results/Presentations

Jede Gruppe präsentiert ein "elektronisches" Arbeitsergebnis (Powerpoint, Website o.ä.) (1-2 Doppelstunden)
Die vorhandenen Multimedia-Elemente werden bearbeitet und z.T. in die Präsentation übernommen.

Die Projektphasen sind noch auf die Arbeit mit PCs (im EDV-Raum oder zuhause) ausgerichtet. Wird das Projekt mit iPads/Tablets durchgeführt, kann flexibler vorgegangen werden. Verfügen alle Beteiligten über iPads/Tablets ist der Wechsel in den EDV-Raum natürlich überflüssig.

Black Views of America

Two poems, a photograph and three short Texts


March on Washington 1963 (Library of Congress)

Two Poems and a Photograph

Assignment

The poems deal with the situation of Blacks in the United States in the middle of the
20th century.

1.What metaphors are used in "Harlem"and „To a White Girl“ to describe the situation Blacks are in? What is expressed through these metaphors?

2.What are the political "messages" of the poems?

3.Find out about the background of the photograph with the Olympic Black Power
salute.

4.Why is it considered to be one of the most important documents of the Black Power movement and one of the most striking images of the 20th century?

Langston Hughes, Harlem

What happens to a dream deferred?
read more

Eldridge Cleaver, To a White Girl

I love you
Because you‘re White
read more

1968 Black Power Salute

tap here for the photograph

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fML9GOfiuBs
Video about the 1968 Olympics Black Power Salute
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/17/newsid_3535000/3535348.stm BBC story

Three Short Texts

All three texts were written by "black power activists" in the 1960s or 1970s.

1.Describe the aspects of the black experience that are dealt with in the texts. 

Malcolm X, from: Message to Grassroots

„ There was two kinds of slaves. There was the house Negro and the field Negro.“

Search for the above text and continue reading up to „you left your mind in Africa.“

read more

Listen to Malcolm X

Eldridge Cleaver, from: Soul on Ice

„Let us recall that the white man, in order to justify slavery and, later on, to justify segregation, elaborated a complex, all-persuasive myth which at one time classified the black man as a subhuman beast of burden. The myth was progressively modified, gradually elevating the blacks on the scale of evolution, following their slowly changing status, until the plateau of separate-but-equal was reached at the close of the nineteenth century. During slavery the black was seen as a mindless Supermasculine Menial. Forced to do the backbreaking work, he was conceived in terms of his ability to do such work - "field niggers", etc. The white man administered the plantation, doing all the thinking, exercising omnipotent power over the slaves. He had little difficulty dissociating himself from the black slaves, and he could not perceive of their positions being reversed or even reversible.
The ideal white man was one who knew how to use his head, who knew how to manage and control things and get things done. Those whites who were not in a position to perform these functions nevertheless aspired to them. The ideal black man was one who did exactly as he was told, and did it efficiently and cheerfully. "Slaves", said Frederick Douglass, "are generally expected to sing as well as work." As the black man's position and function became more varied, the images of white and black, having become stereotypes, lagged behind.“

watch Eldridge Cleaver

George Jackson, from: Soledad Brother

„Blackmen born in the US. and fortunate enough to live past the age of eighteen...“
Go to „Recent letters and an Autobiography“ and read the first four paragraphs.

read more

watch the story of George Jackson

The Protagonists

    

General Tasks

Assignment

1.Collect information about:
The biography of your protagonist
His political activities and role in the Black Power Movement
His writings (literary and/or political)
The Black Power Movement in the 60s and 70s

2.Organize the information you found.

3.Prepare an electronic presentation using either Powerpoint (or a similar program) or an HTML-Editor (to create web-pages). You could also consider a blog.

Your presentation should include text, pictures, audio, video and hyperlinks. Make sure you don't break copyright laws. Use hyperlinks to audiovisual material whenever possible. Don't forget to quote your sources!

Multimedia presentations may be produced by using different tools. You can use presentation software like LibreOffice/OpenOffice Impress, Apple Keynote or Microsoft Powerpoint. You can also work online, e.g. with Google Docs (https://docs.google.com). Here it doesn‘t matter which operating system you use and you can collaborate, i.e. many people can work on the same document.

You can also create a website using either professional software like Dreamweaver or Open Source software like Kompozer (http://kompozer.net/).

MalcolmX

Assignment

1.Start with: Malcolm X: Internet Resources

2.There is also a film about Malcolm X (1992) directed by Spike Lee. You might want to use that movie as an additional source of information.

3.Watch the videos,listen to the audio files and read the texts.

Collect information about his biography, the role he played in the Black Power movement and his main political ideas.

Internet Resources

http://www.brothermalcolm.net/
One of the most important sites on Malcolm X: plenty of information, photographs, speeches, writings. Unfortunately all speeches are in the ra-format (real audio) which won‘t play on the iPad. You will have to download and convert them if you want to listen to them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN_-AO36Afw (part 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC3Y602Z1BY&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL (part 2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-tuy6kI8q8&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL (part 3)
Message to Grassroots part 1-3 (audio only)

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1145
Transcript of „Message to Grassroots“ (1963)

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1145
Transcrip of „Ballot or Bullet“ speech (1964)

George Jackson

Assignment

1.Start with: George Jackson: Internet Resources.

2.Watch the videos, listen to the audio files and read the texts.

Collect information about his biography, the role he played in the Black Power movement and his main political ideas.

Internet Resources

http://www.freedomarchives.org/prisons/GeorgeJackson.mp3 (30 min)
Radio program: 30th anniversary of the death of George Jackson

http://vimeo.com/27870164 (10 min)
40 year commemoration video

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/soledadbro.html
Soledad Brother, The Prison Letters of George Jackson (complete text)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xmDsr2Evu8 (5 min)
Biograpghy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrwyMNGjjto&feature=related
„Day of the Gun“ video documentary part 1 (4 min)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPvsjc1wDwM&feature=related
„Day of the Gun“ video documentary part 2 (4 min)

You can find more of this documentary on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnXBMrJuCSo
Cover version of Bob Dylan‘s song „George Jackson“

Eldridge Cleaver

Assignment

1.Start with Eldridge Cleaver: Internet Resources.

2.Watch the videos, listen to the audio files and read the texts.

Collect information about his biography, the role he played in the Black Power movement and his main political ideas.

Internet Resources

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdi-NNfUF3A (5 min)
Cleaver gives a speech to an all white audience (1968)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnCaO2ErCFQ (2 min)
Cleaver in 1967

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVCP5s6s3EM
Rock band MC5 „I‘m Mad like Eldridge Cleaver“ (part 1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVCP5s6s3EM
Rock band MC5 „I‘m Mad like Eldridge Cleaver“ (part 2)

http://reason.com/archives/1986/02/01/an-interview-with-eldridge-cle/singlepage
Interview with Eldridge Cleaver (1986)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/race/interviews/ecleaver.html
Interview with Eldridge Cleaver (1997)

Presentation

Assignment

1.Present the results of your net activities to the class. Each group has 30 minutes.
Make sure that all group members play an active part.

2.Save your results (in electronic form) and make them available to the other students.

Recommended Resources

Text
Wikipedia-Books in Chapter 5
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=640
http://www.islandmix.com/backchat/f6/white-girl-206916/
http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1145
http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/soledadbro.html
http://reason.com/archives/1986/02/01/an-interview-with-eldridge-cle/singlepage
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/race/interviews/ecleaver.html

Photographs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Carlos-Smith.jpg
http://www.bobbyseale.com/phototour/

Websites
http://www.brothermalcolm.net/
http://www.freedomarchives.org/
http://www.blackpanther.org/
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/pacificapanthers.html

Audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN_-AO36Afw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC3Y602Z1BY&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-tuy6kI8q8&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRNciryImqg
http://www.freedomarchives.org/prisons/GeorgeJackson.mp3

Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fML9GOfiuBs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdi-NNfUF3A
http://vimeo.com/27870164
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xmDsr2Evu8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrwyMNGjjto&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPvsjc1wDwM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnXBMrJuCSo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdi-NNfUF3A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnCaO2ErCFQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVCP5s6s3EM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVCP5s6s3EM
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4669827501566616819
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04UV9eDhDv8&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLF5ACEFCEDF67FF6B
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGNvWLJgQ8Q&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLF5ACEFCEDF67FF6B

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vHX3PtzNEY&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLF5ACEFCEDF67FF6B
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23TkZfP0LPc&list=PLF5ACEFCEDF67FF6B&index=4&feature=plpp_video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URxwe6LPvkM&feature=fvwrel
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x28ijn_the-revolution-will-not-be-televise_music