write a reading response for each part. This response should analyze an idea or argument in the reading(s) and include a question you would like to address. What did you find significant, illuminating, or confusing? cite page numbers for the material you quote or engage with.
do not just recap or summarize the readings, you should combine them together into a single short essay presenting either the most important takeaway or the most important question. The reading response paper is not as individual book/article reviews but as short op-eds.
Part 1: Eras and Social Movements
Required Readings:
• JoAnne Brown, “‘A Is for Atom, B Is for Bomb’: Civil Defense in American Public Education, 1948-1963” (1988)
• Karen Graves, “Preface” and “Politics of Intimidation in the Sunshine State” in And They Were Wonderful Teachers: Florida’s Purge of Gay and Lesbian Teachers (2009)
• Vox video, “How Florida Legally Terrorized Gay Students,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbTBehjdlc0
Part 2: Civil Rights and Labor
• Crystal Sanders, “A Revolution in Expectations” in A Chance for Change: Head Start and Mississippi’s Black Freedom Struggle (2016)
• Elizabeth Todd-Breland, “Teacher Power” in Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s (2018)
