What you will do today is research. You will get information that will help you write and essay or a poem. I’m going to give you some links to sites that have links to information about

Martin Luther King, Jr.

African Americans

Rosa Parks

Great Women

Then, answer two of these questions:

1. How important are buses to you? To your family?
2. How would you feel being at “the back of the bus”?
3. Why was this important?
4. Why do you think boycotting the bus lines worked?
5. Why do you think white people in the south did this?
   

There are at least two writing contest this month about civil rights. You will do writing to enter at least one of the contests.

SacRT (the local bus) is sponsoring a contest called “A Season of Civil Rights” about public transport and civil rights. Here are the rules:

1. Write a poem of 10 lines or less;
2. The subject should be civil rights and transit (public transport like buses)

I am still locating information on the essay contest. It will involve more writing (essays are usually three to five paragraphs, with three to five sentences in each paragraph). The subject will be about Martin Luther King, Jr and his work.

What you will do today is research. You will get information that will help you write and essay or a poem. I’m going to give you some links to sites that have links to information about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the history of African Americans in this country. Go to the links, then come back here, and tell me three things that you learned that you can include in a poem or essay.

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