Kinds of Sentences
Author's Purpose
My Brother Martin Comprehension 1
My Brother Martin Comprehension 2
Vocabulary Words
100

Martin Luther King Jr. changed the world

What is declarative.

100

A biography about Martin Luther King Jr. 

What is inform?

100

genre of the story

What is a biography?

100

job of Martin Luther King Jr.'s mother and father.

What is a minister and musician?

100

Unfairness

What is to injustice?

200

Look at this picture of Martin Luther King Jr.

What is imperative?

200

A story about an amusement park and all the rides.

What is to entertain?

200

Martin pulled this prank on Mr. Mann because he wanted to get out of practicing the piano.


What is that he loosened the legs on the piano bench?

200

To frighten unsuspecting passersby on the sidewalk in front of their house, the King children would often dangle this from a stick.


What is their grandmother's old fur piece?

200

Something that is healthy

What is nourishing?

300

Do you think a speech can change history?

What is interrogative?

300

A story about how to play football.

What is to inform?

300

Martin Luther King, Jr. promised his mother he would do this because he did not like the way he was treated.


What is "turn this world upside down"?

300

This was the "dream" that MLK had.


What is that black and white people would live together as equals?

300

Meetings with others

What is encounter?

400

Dr. King was an awesome speaker

What is exclamatory?

400

An article about how everyone should chew gum.

What is to persuade?

400

The King children grew up when these laws kept black an white people apart.


What is segregation?

400

In the story, MLK's father refused to buy shoes at one store for Martin because this happened....


What is that the salesman would only wait on them in the back of the store?

400

A large amount of something

What is to numerous?

500

Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream

What is declarative?

500

A story describing how dark the inside of the house was, how the windows creaked, and the wind howled.


What is to entertain?

500

The author stated that the stories her parents told were "as nourishing as the food...set before us". It means..

What is that the stories helped the children's minds grow?

500

meaning of "practiced what he preached".


What is believed in what was taught?

500

Separation due to skin color.

What is segregation?

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