BP3 QTR3: Children's March

    We watched the movie Childrens March a couple days ago in civics. The movie Childrens March is an inspiring movie stating that you can make a difference. It was a really interesting short movie. The blacks wanted to stop being treated different from the whites so they were finally going to stand up against them, not the adults like you would expect, but the kids. Childrens March is a true story that took place in Birmingham, nicknamed Bombing-ham because it was the most destructive city. It was also the most segregated city in the U.S. Blacks had different water fountains and they just weren't treated how a person should be. Whites paraded in white tanks, making them think that they were more powerful, and maybe making the blacks scared. But they had finally had enough.

     . Adults were scared to protest but the kids wanted to live a better life. They planned a big event using code over the radio to tell kids to meet in certain places. Shelly, told kids there was going to be a party in the park, but he really meant they were going to protest. The kids snuck out of school to participate. One of their teachers, Mrs. Goree helped the kids by turning her back so she couldn't see the students leave so neither of them would get in trouble. They all gathered at the church and they left in waves of 50 people, to make the cops waiting outside seem like they were the last, but what they didn't know was that as kids were leaving though the front, more were coming through the back door. The blacks were happy to go to jail because they knew they were making a change for the better. They were getting freedom. The firefighters got the fire-hose to try to get the crowd to disperse, so they sprayed it on them. Four men couldn't even hold it steady! Many kids ran fast but ten were left standing singing one word over and over again- Freedom. Why should ANYONE be treated this way? In jail they were happy and were singing about freedom. The jail was filthy but once someone was let out, they ran right back to the cop car so they could get back in.

      Kids of all ages were in the jail, the youngest at age four.Because they weren't afraid to go to jail or get hurt the whites had no power over them, because their fear was their weapon. The president at the time, Kennedy, felt sick when he saw the picture of what was happening over there. So he made a speech, saying that this was the end of segregation.  People may still be picked on because of their skin color, but now every one will be treated the same, no different water fountains, and no more having to sit in the back of the bus.

BP2 QTR3: Project Reflection

          For our final project, were visiting Starbucks and asking adults opinions on questions regarding economics and putting the results in an imovie. I thought it was a really neat and interesting idea, and most importantly, different from all the rest. I think what led us to choose this was the fact that no one else has really done something else like this before and we could defiantly learn a lot from this experience. It's something I was waiting to try out and I think it turned out great. We got great responses and I learned a lot from those people we interviewed.

            The project is unfolding really good for us because we went to Starbucks, and got great answers! It's turning out better than I actually expected and the more we add to it, the more excited I get. It was really easy getting answers from every one and the imovie has been easy so far too. We are ready to download the videos we made of the people we interviewed, and I learned a lot from them. I think whats working best for us is combining our ideas to make the best possible movie we can make. I'm really excited for the outcome, and i don't think we have too much more work to do since we already interviewed people and started our imovie.

               We are gathering our needed information by asking the people at Starbucks our questions concerning economics, and then doing some research online to decide which answers we got were best. Then we will need to cut the answers that didn't quite explain the question out from our movie. I think this is working really good for us, we just need to edit the interviews and then I think our movie will be pretty awesome. We are making it like a news broadcast and it looks so cool!

               When at Starbucks, I didn't expect such intelligent answers from some of the people we interviewed. We received very good feed back from everyone and they were glad to help. We didn't interview as many people as I would have liked to interview, but it will defiantly be enough to answer our questions thoroughly. We did have to change a few things from our original plan, like how were going to set up the movie and how we were going to ask the questions but I think they changed for the better.