Follow the Rules?
Breaking Free
Stand Up, Speak Out
Rebel Writers
Poetry & Protest
100

The Declaration of Independence was written to rebel against this country.

What is Britain?

100

The Declaration of Independence says people should change the government if it does this.

What is fails to protect their rights?

100

This document says that "all men are created equal."

What is the Declaration of Independence?

100

This author wrote Civil Disobedience to protest unfair government actions.

Who is Henry David Thoreau?

100

The title If We Must Die suggests that the speaker is ready to do this.

What is fight back?

200

In We Real Cool, the pool players break rules by skipping this.

What is school?

200

Emerson says you must trust this above all.

What is yourself?

200

Civil Disobedience says the best government is one that does this.

What is governs the least?

200

This author encouraged people to think for themselves in Self-Reliance.

Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?

200

This document was modeled after the Declaration of Independence.

What is the Declaration of Sentiments?

300

In Self-Reliance, Emerson says people should not blindly follow this.

What is society? (Or What is Govt., Church, others, etc.)

300

Thoreau spent a night in jail because he refused to do this.

What is pay taxes?

300

This convention took place in 1848 and consisted of hundreds of people demanding equal rights for women.

What is the Seneca Falls Conventions?

300

This poet responded to the "Red Summer" with a sonnet about rebellion.

Who is Claude McKay.

300

The Declaration of Independence is a formal way of doing this to Britain.

What is protesting?

400

The Declaration of Sentiments was written to demand rights for this group.

What is women?

400

In If We Must Die, the speaker refuses to do this, even when outnumbered.

What is surrender.

400

The pool players in We Real Cool acts tough, but the poem hints at this possible ending.

What is dying young?

400

The author of A Soldier for the Crown tells a story about rebellion during this war.

What is the American Revolution?

400

Emerson believes that being misunderstood often means this.

What is being great?

500

In A Soldier for the Crown, the main character runs away from this.

What is slavery?

500

In A Soldier for the Crown, the main character changes this to create a new identity.

What is their name and appearance?

500

The speaker in If We Must Die would rather die fighting than live in this way.

What is fear of submission?

500

This poet wrote about young people rebelling against society’s expectations in We Real Cool.

Who is Gwendolyn Brooks?

500

Thoreau’s idea of civil disobedience inspired this civil rights leader.

Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?