Born in Alabama, he was inspired by MLK, the concepts of nonviolent protest and racial injustice to become a leader in the Civil Rights movement. He loved chickens as a child.
Who is John Lewis?
100
When an author gives the reader a hint of what is coming in the story ahead.
What is to forshadow?
100
When blacks and whites must attend seperate schools, pray in seperate churches, drink from seperate drinking fountains and eat in seperate resteraunts.
What is segregation?
100
What is it called when someone writes their life story?
What is a biography?
100
When someone is hung without a court trial, often by a mob.
What is lynching?
200
The most famous Civil Rights leader, he inspired John Lewis to join the Civil Rights movement. He led the Montgomery Bus boycott and has a memorial on the National Mall.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
200
When a story leaps back in time.
What is a flashback?
200
When farmers pay the land owners the rent, usually half the crops that were raised that year. A system used to keep blacks poor and landless.
What is sharecropping?
200
The chicken that John Lewis loved as a child.
Who is Lil Pullet?
200
John Lewis used one to warm chicken eggs.
What is an incubator?
300
Brutally murdered by white men, this 14 year old boy's mother opened his coffin to the world and the media and insprired thousands to join the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Emmett Till?
300
The main character of a story.
What is the protagonist?
300
The Supreme Court decision that said blacks and whites could go to different schools, ride different buses, etc., as long as the were both treated the same.
What is seperate but equal?
300
When advocates for social change achieve goals through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic and political noncooperation, without using violence.
What is non-violent resistance?
300
John Lewis parents told him not cause trouble and not to upset white people because of these laws and social norms.
What is Jim Crow or
What is de facto and de jure segregation?
400
The first black president, his inaugeration day is the opening setting to the graphic novel, "MARCH", the John Lewis story.
Who is Barack Obama?
400
When writing conveys information, educates and informs.
What is expository writing.
400
When segregation is legalized in the judicial system by law.
What is de jure segregation, or
What are Jim Crow laws?
400
Travelng to New York, John Lewis is forever changed by what he sees, this event is the beginning the process of John Lewsi maturng from a child into a young adult.
What is coming of age?
400
RAFT.
What is Role of the author, Audience, Format and Topic?
500
Inspired by the murder of Emmett Till to join the Civil Rights Movement, she was with John Lewis at Barack Obama's inaugeration. She was the woman who refused to move to the back of the bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
500
When a story is told by person who speaks using "I" and tells the story from his or her point of view.
What is first person narrative.
500
When segregation is enforced by social norms, not by laws.
What is de facto segreation?
500
The event that John Lewis uses to forshadow the Civil Rights Movement opens his graphic novel March.
What is Bloody Sundy on the Selma Bridge.
500
How much money John Lewis' dad spent to buy the family farm in Alabama.