The Civil Rights Movement
The main goal of the civil rights movement
Equal rights for black/African American people
Who is the author of The Rock and the River?
Kekla Magoon
Who says "You can't be the rock and the river, Sam"
CHAOS!
Stick
(Also accepted: Leroy)
Chicago is a city that is fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action
Simile
The Head of Delaware Valley Friends School (first AND last name)
Kirk Smothers
Who is a major leader of the civil rights movement, who famously gave his "I Have a Dream" speech
CHAOS!
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
Where does Sam first find the gun?
In the block tower
Who said "Our words and our bodies were all the weapons we had. But the country took notice. People are more afraid of ideas than of guns. Don’t forget that"
Father
When the stooping sky / Leans down upon the hills
Personification
What is the name of our mascot?
Darby
A prominent civil rights leader who was born in Omaha; he was later assassinated for his beliefs.
Malcolm X
What is Sam's dream career?
CHAOS!
An architect
Who said "Some things should never be said out loud, even if they're true."
Sam
Lives of great men remind us / We can make our lives sublime; And, departing, leave behind us / Footprints on the sands of time
Metaphor
Write a parenthetical citation (also known as an in-text citation)
CHAOS!
(Author's Last Name Page #)
What is something that the Black Panthers worked to start in order to help communities? Also seen in R&R.
The Free Breakfast for School Children program
What does Sam sees that makes him change his mind about getting revenge for Stick?
The Black Panthers clinic being built
Who said, "I was no longer helpless. No longer did I have to stand by, watch, and wait.”
Sam
The rain drives, drives endlessly
Heavy threads of rain;
The wind beats at the shutters,
The surf drums on the shor
Drunken telephone poles lean sideways;
(TWO types of figurative language)
Hyperbole and Personification
What mobile game is the school currently obsessed with?
Block Blast
Name at least two of the points in the Black Panther's 10 point program
What is:
Freedom
Full employment
End of robbery by capitalists
Decent housing
Education that teachers the true history of America
Black men exempt from military service
End to police brutality and the murder or Black people
Freedom for Black men in jail
Tried by a jury of peers
Land, food, housing, education, clothing, justice, and peace
Why does Bucky distrust the police so much?
Bucky's dad was killed while in police custody
Who said, “Leroy says the worst thing is for someone to feel hopeless. But that’s what happens when you live where we live too long. You get so you can’t see past where you’re at, and you can’t believe there’s anything better for you. You with me?”
Raheem
Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr. Heathcliff's dwelling, "wuthering" being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather. Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there at all times, indeed. One may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house, and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way.
CHAOS!
Atmosphere
What are the titles of the next two books we're reading?
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lord of the Flies