vocabulary
Which word is spelled correctly?
A. destinguish
B. violence
C. honorred
B. violence
Martin Luther King Jr. fought to end the __________ of African-American people in all spaces.
This word is a synonym for social separation.
segregation
Dr. Martin Luther King admired _________, so he encouraged people to protest peacefully instead of fighting.
Mohandas Gandhi
to have the ability to, in the present tense
e.g. I _________ walk to work.
can
Name the two poets who wrote about dreams in our book.
Langston Hughes, Jane Medina
Which word does not match the others?
despair, hope, expect, anticipate
despair
Which two are not synonyms?
1. segregation = separation
2. war = fighting
3. abstained = restrained
4. adhered = removed
4. adhered = removed
Adhered means stuck.
When people refuse to obey unfair laws, they practice _________________.
A. fighting
B. conflict
C. peaceful protest
peaceful protest
Your friend wants to eat healthy. If you have some advice for them about eating healthy, how can you communicate that with a modal?
Make a sentence: You __________________.
You should __________. (Answers may vary)
If you want to encourage a friend with dreams, which things should you NOT say to them?
1. Keep dreaming even if other people don't support you.
2. You should hold fast to your dreams.
3. You can have dreams if you want to.
3. You can have dreams if you want to.
This use of "can" is not inspiring or particularly encouraging.
Which word does not match the others?
fastened, abstained, stuck, attached
abstained
Which statement conveys an opinion?
1. "I Have a Dream," Martin Luther King Jr.'s greatest speech, changed the U.S.A.
2. 250,000 people listened to Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech.
3. The governor of Alabama put African American children in jail.
1. "I Have a Dream" was MLKJ's greatest speech
In "Dreams" by Langston Hughes, Hughes compares life without dreams to a crippled animal. What animal and injury does he describe?
a broken-winged bird that cannot fly
When Rosa Parks sat at the front of the bus, she broke the law. What might the law have said? Tell me with a modal term.
African American people _________________.
African American people must _____________. (Answers vary.)
Why were dreams especially important for African-American people living in America? They did not have e________ r_________, so.....
They did not have equal rights, so their lives were difficult. Without dreams, they might despair or lose hope.