Z Selma Guidelines
Go to Selma Stories to see our photos and hear our podcasts of this years trip.
It’s Selma Time. It’s time to see the World.
Join Oakridge High School Students as we blog our way to across Alabama from March 6 to 9. Different students will take each of our four days and share with you our travels. Please check here for the blog and feel free to post. And check here for phone numbers and flight information. Thanks.
Check the Calendar for specific times and dates.
Check here to read about (and to watch) our video conference on Feb 12, 2009 with Congressman John Lewis
Listen to the following podcast and watch the photo slideshow of Selma to gain insight to our Selma trip. This podcast will not open in Firefox browser. Use Safari or Explorer.
Please let Mr. Wood know if you are going to Selma by posting here – before December 20.
MANDATORY MEETING ON TUESDAY DECEMBER 2 IN MR. WOOD’S ROOM. Check here for details.
Two Essay Questions (12 pt font, 1 inch margin, single spaced)
#1 – Explain the significance of the Civil Rights movement in American History and the importance of Selma in that movement.
#2 – Why is it important that you go on this trip?
Selma, Alabama (Bridge Crossing Jubilee) – March 6 to March 9, 2009.
Selma, Alabama is where the battle for American democracy was truly won. I’ve gone six years – taken Oakridge students two times. I will go every year the rest of my life. There is something truly special about joining hundreds of others, old folks and children, black people and white people together, to walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday of the Jubliee. For four days we’ll emerse ourselves in the Civil Rights movement. Friday in Birmingham (Kelly Ingram Park, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church), Saturday and Sunday at the Jubilee in Selma. And then on Monday before flying back – we’ll tour Dexter and the Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. This trip is just us. And history. You will feel the Civil Rights movement in your bones.
Use the category section Selma – daily info for information regarding fundraising and general communication between travelers. Post here if you have questions about the specifics of the trip.
“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard
Mr. Wood….I want to go to Selma again this upcoming year…how do I go about doing such a thing? click your heels together three times and say there is no place like Selma. That should do it