Vocab
Vocab
"A Woman in the Snow"
"Rosa Parks"
Inferences
100

To pity someone is to have this.

What is compassion?

100
If you do this to someone, you are forcing them to act.
What is provoke?
100

Who narrates this story?

A third person narrator

100

This describes a magazine profile.

What is a short, detailed article on a piece of a person's life

100

What interesting fact did we learn about Grady's father?

He was the town drunk.

200

If you have power over others you have this.

What is authority?

200

This is the act of seperating people.

What is segregation?

200

What does Grady do that shows he is prejudice?.

He calls the bus route the "Blackbird" express 

He does not help the woman and baby because of their race

He does not treat all passengers equally, based on their race

200

This is how the magazine profile of Rosa Parks is organized.

By the time order of events

or

Sequence of events

200

What was Rosa Parks' job?

Seamstress

300
If you punish an organization by refusing to use its goods and services you are doing this.
What is boycotting?
300
If someone is this, they do not give up or change.
What is persistent?
300

What would have happened to Eula Mae if Ray did not let her on the bus?

What is she would have kept haunting bus drivers.

300

What point of view is this magazine story told from?

First person

300

Who posted bail for Rosa Parks?

Clifford Durr, a white lawyer.

400
Frantic is another word for this.
What is desperate?
400
This is the unfair treatment of a particular group of people.
What is discrimination?
400
During the twenty five years that pass between the two parts of the story, this has happened in society.
What is attitudes about race have changed.
400

According to both the profile and the poem, Parks became a hero when she did this.

When she defended her rights as a human being.

When she demanded to be treated equally.

400

Why wasn't Grady able to show compassion for others?

He wasn't shown compassion in his childhood.

500
A person is this if they form negative opinions without thinking of the facts.
What is prejudiced?
500

This mean a trait you are born with.

What is inherent?

500

This is a part of the story that shows the narrator knows more about Grady than other characters do.

When Grady tells himself it is a waste of time to be nice.

When Grady thinks about how much he likes having authority over others.

500

What is the magazine profile is mostly about?

A quiet woman who brought about change.

500

What does the author mean when she wrote, Rosa Parks did so much by doing nothing at all?

By not getting up and giving away her seat, Rosa Parks changed the world.

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