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Do you think in today's society we see segregation between races and religions and give an example.

What do you think would happen if we stopped teaching new generations about this tragic past? Is there a possibility of us repeating the same mistakes?

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1. Compare and Contrast Lynching vs slavery
2. Analyze what lynching is and what started it

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1- Lynchings were caused by the desire to exercise social control over black citizens. Speculate why white people felt like they needed to dominate them?

2- In the text it states "A black man is hanged from a tree by white vigilantes, typically following an accusation of rape or of a sexual advance toward a white woman" (Smith 5). Predict why they incriminated African Americans following a lynching?

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"It’s no surprise that lynching has been called “America’s national crime.” " how do you think this idea of lynching came to be?

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the article says "Lynchings sent the message that the law did not protect them, their families, their belongings or their bodies" how do you think this would effect people today?

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Why is it important that students learn about racism and lynching?

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Why were nooses used to show fear in America and what does it symbolize?

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1) If we continue to turn a blind eye to the harsh realities of our world, explain what consequences it will have on our society.
2) How are nooses used to strike fear in America and how can we reclaim this symbol and use it for?

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1. Analyze why the author decided to incorporated the symbols of American patriots?
2. Evaluate why lynching is called 'America's national crime'?

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1) Infer why humans built racial barriers between each other throughout history.

2) Is it possible for the government to have complete control of racism at any point in time?

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1. Distinguish how the government could have further aided the safety of colored people?
2. Evaluate the symbolism of the noose and what its meaning in today's society

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Will there be an end to racism in the future?
How is racism in effect throughout today's society?

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1) Hypothesize how past lynchings can teach us and affect us in this modern era.
2) Analyze the mindset white lynchers must have employed during the time of lynching, and how that mindset is carried over to today's society.

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1.)Can we infer that lynching were used to try and reinstate control as the southerns of their pride as they lost what they believed to be correct in the sense of a way of life?
2.) Why is showing the dark side of history important in today's society?

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1.) Predict how the evil crimes such as Lynching, Hanging and other crimes along those lines will be describe to newer generations?
2.) In your opinion, do you think being taught these horrifying crimes that were committed against the black race be taken in consideration to members of our society and use them to commit crimes?

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Predict how lynching will be explained in the future?

Examine how the noose affected our history?

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1. Analyze why it is important that students learn about lynching?

2. Predict how different people reacted to a white person being lynched vs. a black person being lynched

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1) Hypothesize why might the blacks have been lynched the worse, rather than other races?
2) Infer what would happen if the Government were to take action upon those who have done these heinous crimes?

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1) Will there be an end of racism someday?
2) What does racism symbolizes today's world?

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Evaluate if these lynchings never happened in the first place and were still discriminated against

Could the lynchings mean a different thing than just humiliation

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1) If some of the lynching was people taking jailed men out of jails and hanging them outside of courthouses, does that mean the police were in of it?
2) Why were the communities and police departments not more careful and on top of things?

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1. Could this have been stopped by the government, why did the government not intervene?
2.  Could the lynching of the white and blacks be seen as the Americans
National Crime, or racism as a whole.

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1. Predict why whites hated those that served in the military even though they were fighting for all of America.
2. Analyze the phrase "accusation" as it is used in the texts and judge whether the rulings were fair or not.

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1) do you think only teaching the victorys in history is benificaial?
2) why do you believe this wasnt stopped when the lynching went on?

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1. connect todays racism to when it first started back in the 1800's and how it has gotten worse or better.
2. argue whether lynching and racism as a whole is Americas national crime.

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1. Paragraph 6 states lynching was aimed for  bringing down the success of blacks. Describe how lynching is more than just the violence.

2. Examine how lynchings having further developed prejudice views towards blacks.

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1. When smith writes, "A black soldier returning from war could be abducted and lynched in his military uniform days or even hours after returning from risking his life overseas" (Smith 2). Justify why this was happening.
2. Explain if you think future generations will understand that a change needs to happen. Why do you think this?

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1. Identify how White citizens in the 20th century abused their power to bring harm to African Americans?
2. Elaborate on the impact of the symbols of the noose and the confederate flag on today's society.

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1. Smith states that history "demands that we look at mangled bodies and burned flesh, and acknowledge broken families and lives" (Smith 2). Distinguish between being lynched and being murdered

2. Smith discusses that we must teach the future generations about lynching. Evaluate the saying, "Those who do not learn about history are doomed to repeat it"

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1) Why is it important for future generations to know about lynchings and other occurrences that happened during the era when Africa-Americans were treated poorly.
2) Why do you think Blacks were the main targets during this era?

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1. Explain why the noose is such a recognizable symbol and how it makes our country look?

2. In a article by Gabriel Smith, he says “This is a topic many Americans prefer to avoid”. Infer why americans feel like that, when that’s our history

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1. Analyze this quote. "they were largely motivated by white citizens’ desires to exercise social control over black citizens after slavery was abolished,"(Smith 1). Why do you think they were motivate to exercise control over African American citizens?

2. Knowing that times have changed since the lynchings began, do you think in today society, African Americans are still treated unfairly similar to the times in the beginning of the 20th century?

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1. Explain why black people would be lynched simply for being more successful than a white man even after they where free of slavery and made something of their life.
2. In the text it states "keep them in line with the community's social order.". Predict why people thought black people where not in line with the social order.

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Evaluate whether or not you think racism has still been a huge problem in society today

Hypothesis why there were so many accounts of lynching. was it terrorism?

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1. In the text it says, "We must teach about lynching" (Smith 8).  Do you think that being taught about lynching and it's history is having an effect when the symbol of the noose is still being used today?
2. Explain how you think lynching and these acts of terrorism were overcome if "Lynchings sent the message that the law did not protect them, their families, their belongings or their bodies" (Smith 5).

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1. Do you think that being informed about this information puts evil ideas into people head, or do you think it makes them feel sympathy for people so it doesn't ever happen again?
2. Evaluate the different lives that were lived in this time period, and how people viewed each other.

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1.) Why do you think America shows the symbol of the noose in public spaces and teach it in school, when it is something that has a sort of stigma that should be avoided?

2.) Do you think blacks and African-Americans were the only minorities that were lynched? Do you think that other races were murdered at the same volume and for the same reasons?

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1. Evaluate the symbolic symbols about lynching and why it was it public.

2. Compare and contrast the lives of the white and black men in our history.

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1. If we observe what is happening around us today how much would you say we have changed from the times when racial hate crimes were ok.
2. explain and compare how the blacks in todays society are treated compared to the ones during the 1940-1960 era.

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1. In the text it states "chase the American dream" what can you infer from the writing and your knowledge of the american dream that would support this argument?
2.  In the text it uses many different versions of symbols what can you infer from the contrast in symbols in the first two paragraphs?

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1. In the text it states, "nooses have also appeared in dozens of school buildings over the past 18 months" (Smith 7),  evaluate why the author would put this fact in his article.

2. In the article it states, "one of the most recognizable symbols of this ideology is the noose" (Smith 2), speculate why the noose is an important symbol, if that time period was so horrible.

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1- Lynchings were caused by the desire to exercise social control over black citizens. Speculate why white people felt like they needed to dominate them?

2- In the text it states "A black man is hanged from a tree by white vigilantes, typically following an accusation of rape or of a sexual advance toward a white woman" (Smith 5). Predict why they incriminated African Americans following a lynching?

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1. Do you think that if we continue to ignore the evils of our history, then the same evils will occur in our society today?
2. Justify whether teaching about our history, even if it's bad, will help future generations not make the same mistakes.