8th Grade Social Studies
This school year students will study US and NC History.
Topics include: NC Geography, Colonization, Revolutionary War, US Expansion, Civil War, Industrialization, WWI and WWII, Civil Rights Movement, and Financial Literacy
Assessment for Civil Rights Unit- choose 2 quotes and explain in detail what the quote means to you.
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.” Thurgood Marshall
“Give light and people will find the way.” Ella Baker, “I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free … so other people would be also free.” Rosa Parks
“The civil rights movement didn’t begin in Montgomery and it didn’t end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.” Julian Bond
"The time is always right to do what is right.” MLK
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”MLK
"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” MLK
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”MLK
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?’' MLK
"Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.” Jackie Robinson
"There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free." Jackie Robinson
You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.” Rosa Parks
“To this day I believe we are here on earth to live, grow, and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.” Rosa Parks
Civil Rights Project
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