Sra. Christianson
Nombre: Fecha: Período:
WALKOUT
HBO FILMS (50pts)
Use your notes from the movie “WALKOUT” to answer the following: (37pts)
1. How old were the students in the movie? ______
2. What was their consequence for speaking their first language, Spanish? ______
3. How would you feel if your consequence to an action was physical punishment in front of the class or in private? ______
4. Would you say or do something about it? ______
5. Do you know any of your relatives/ancestors that have had similar experiences throughout their education? ______
6. What were your thoughts when you first saw that students had no access to the bathroom during recess? ______
7. Why do you think that Yoli and Bobby got information about a technical trade and Paula got brochures for colleges? ______
8. Do you remember from the movie, approximately what percent of Chicanos would graduate from high school? And how many would pursue a professional career? Why do you think this happened?
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9. Do you think it is different today? ______
10. Who is Sal Castro? Is he a fictional character? ______
11. At what point did Sal Castro join his students in planning a form of protest?
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12. What were his two main goals joining the students? ______
13. At what point did parents and community leaders join the cause of the L.A. students and Sal Castro?
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14. What was the accomplishment if the Walkout?
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15. Did the school board grant their demands? ______
16. Who was arrested? Why? ______
17. Were those arrested freed? On what conditions? ______
18. The Chicano movement and the Brown Berets are similar to what movements that you have seen in social studies classes? ______
19. How many East L.A. high schools protested with the Walkout? ______
20. When did the walkout take place? ______
21. What were the Mexican American teens trying to do with the WALKOUT?
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22. What did the parents of Mexican American teens think about their children’s ideas and requests?
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23. Why did they take on the label “Chicano”?
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24. Why did her father call Paula “Chilipina”? ______
25. Was the Walkout and the “La Causa” movements to protest exclusively fro Mexican Americans rights? ______
26. What other group was considered? ______
27. What was the name of the East L.A. School were Paula attended?
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28. What were the students’ requests once they became politicized and increasingly aware of the inadequacies in educational funding?
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29. What happened during the school board meeting where the students brought their requests?
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30. What decision did the students take after the school board meeting?
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31. Do you think the walkout would have happened if the school board had acted on, either accepting or denying their request?
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32. How many other L.A. high schools followed the suit?
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33. What were the two main concerns at the heart of the students?
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34. What did the students actually resent?
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35. What two subjects did the Chicano students want to have in their schools?
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36. What other two humane improvements did they want?
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37. Who is Montezuma Esparza? ______
In the end, city education officials did little to meet the student demands, and some twenty years later those who participated, while showing evidence that the demonstrations had significantly impacted their own lives, were still lamenting the problems plaguing the schools of East Los Angeles. East LA today remains home to thousands of working families. However, while many conditions in the schools have improved over time, parts of East LA continue to be challenged by high rates of crime, poverty, and multi-generational gang activity.
Match the word to its definition: (13pts)
2) revolution / B. A radical and pervasive change in society and the social structure, especially one made suddenly and often accompanied by violence; a radical shift in thought or procedure
3) La Raza / C. Moderate to inferior in quality; ordinary
4) mediocre / D. amount of money per student paid by the state to the school each day for attendance in homeroom. Important in maintaining a school’s budget
5) barrio / E. A large body of persons who may be thought of as a unit because of common characteristics. In the traditional biological and anthropological systems of classification race refers to a group of persons who share such genetically transmitted traits as skin color, hair texture, and eye shape or color
6) nonviolent/passive resistance / F. Political/sociological term often used in place of Hispanic people who share a common culture that is a blend of indigenous and European cultures and use the Spanish language as a primary means of communication.
7) ADA (average daily attendance): / G. Spanish term meaning “neighborhood,” with the added deep feelings of great territorial and sentimental loyalty
8) ethnicity / H. physical punishment meted out to students in the form of paddling or spanking
9) tawdry / I. Chicano nationalist activist group focused on community organizing against police brutality and in favor of educational equality. They participated against the Vietnam War. They supported the walkouts. They protested against inadequate health care, job opportunities, minority issues, etc
10) Latino / J. Political/sociological term used by Mexican-Americans born in the United States to define themselves
11) Brown Berets / K. Literally “The Race”; Spanish term for Mexicans or Mexican Americans considered as a group, sometimes extending to all Spanish-speaking people of the Americas; used to connote pride in one’s culture
12) corporal punishment / L. One’s culture as manifested by such markers as language, dress, food, rituals, customs, etc. Ethnicity is taught and learned, as opposed to race, which consists of certain physical characteristics
13) Chicano/a / M. Peaceful resistance to a government or other authority by fasting or refusing to cooperate by persons seeking change; resisting by passive, rather than violent means
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