Vocabulary
Something that is healthy
What is nourishing?
Goal or hope for the future
What is dream?
The setting of My Brother Martin
Atlanta, Georgia
Martin's father's job
What is a minister?
Giant sloths the size of elephants once lived in many places on earth, including North America. Today, sloths can be found in the tropical forests of Central and South America. They eat leaves and berries. A sloth can stick its tongue out 12 inches.
What is inform?
Black people and white people separated based on their skin color
What is segregation?
Synonym for model of what something should look like
What is example?
The author of the story
Who is Martin's sister, Christine?
One word to describe to King children.
Answers will vary: Acceptable answers: close, funny, playful, obedient
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What is persuade?
To like one thing more than another
What is prefer?
Antonym for set free
What is capture?
The person in the story who gives the children hope after learning about segregation/
Who is the mother, Mrs. King?
The way that their father kept his children safe.
He had them stay "close to home". They shielded them from the injustice.
Once upon a time there was a magic pencil. When people used it, the pencil would write all by itself. A student named Max found it on his way home. When he used it on his Math test, it magically helped him to get all of his questions correct. It became Max’s most important pencil.
What is entertain?
Short meetings with people
What is encounters?
Antonym for single or one
What is numerous?
What did M.L. say that led you to believe that he wanted to do something to stop the segregation between blacks and whites?
One example of injustice that happened in Atlanta, Georgia that was mentioned in the story.
Answers will vary, acceptable answers: Different bathrooms, watching the movie from the balcony, different water fountain, white only signs, the police officer, etc...
The author's purpose for writing My Brother Martin?
What is to inform?
When something is unfair. Ex: Ms. Coughlin giving all the girls 100 on their tests.
What is injustice?
Antonym for forget
What is recall?
The first event that made the King children see that black people were treated unfairly.
When the white kids on their block told them that they could not play with them anymore.
The reason that Martin's dad refused to buy shoes from the store.
What is...he was told to enter through the back door?
Students should be assigned a computer to use throughout the school year. Among many reasons, studies show that students who attend schools that have a 1:1 computer policy do better in all subjects.
What is to persuade?