Plessy VS Ferguson
Why did Homer Plessy get arrested?
He refused to give up his seat or He bought a ticket for the wrong section of the train
what is He bought a ticket for the wrong section of the train.
When you have to make a guess using what you already know, what you read or observed in the text, you are making
an inference or a theme
What is an inference?
What is the name of the landmark case that okayed segregation under "separate but equal?"
What is Brown Vs Board, Jim Crow laws, or Plessy Vs Ferguson
What is Plessy VS Ferguson?
The message the author wants you, the reader, to take away from the reading is the
summary or the theme
What is the theme?
Which case put an end to Jim Crow laws?
Plessy vs Ferguson or Brown Vs Board
What is Brown Vs Board (of Education)
When you take a longer piece of text and shorten it with a little bit of the beginning, middle and end, then it is the
paragraph or a summary
What is the summary?
What was supposed to be the meaning behind "separate but equal?"
Separate things no matter the condition/quality or separate things but equal in condition/quality
What is separate things but equal in quality?
When I use clues surrounding unfamiliar words to figure out fancy nancy words, then I am using
predictions or context clues
What are context clues?
What did the 14th amendment include?
What is equal protection and treatment under constitutional laws?
The who or what the text is about and what I should learn when I am done reading it is the
central idea or the moral
What is central idea?