Fordland Middle School Protest Project

7th Grade Protest Project

In this Unit, Social Change and Responsibility, students are learning about ways people protest to bring about change in the world.    As part of this project, students are designing a website on a famous protest they have been assigned.  Please visit the links below to see what they have learned.

Famous Protests

Boston Tea Party of 1773 - 7NB Kelli & Kassi
Alice Paul Hunger Strike - 7 NB Christina & Payton
Woman's Suffragists protest the White House - 7B Britany W.
Greensboro Sit-In - 7 NB Sara & Kayla
Ruby Bridges First Day of Class - 7B Madi & Emily S. / 7NB Sarah P
Selma March - 7 NB Tabitha & Makayla V
Mohandas Gandhi Dandi March of 1930
Kent State University, Ohio, in May 1970 - 7B JW
1965-1970 Grape Boycott -
Montgomery Bus Boycott - Rosa Parks - 7Band Amanda & Ali/ 7NB Darya Ivanova
March on Washington August 1963 - 7 NB Dylan P & Darik
Air Traffic Controllers Strike (1981) - 7Band Roland & Austen / 7NB Morgan
Caesar Chavez Hunger Strike - 7NB Jerry
Nelson Mandela's protests while in prison - 7B Isaac & Jesse
1994 Baseball Strike - 7Band Raymond / 7NB Dylan G & Kyle
Westboro Church in Seymour - 7Band Aliesha & Paige / 7 NB Ashton & Dakota
Tiamanmen Square Protest of 1989 - 7NB Daelynn & Jeff
Screen Actors Guild Strike (2000) - 7Band Cord & Kenyon/ 7NB Jarrett & Paul
Protests in Egypt in 2011 - 7B Jon & Brock
2011 Wisconsin Labor Protests - 7Band Emily C & Makayla M.
2011 Football Lock Out - 7B Alex & Blake