Rosa Parks: My Story Not Just Another Little Girl

Rosa Parks: My Story

Not Just Another Little Girl

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Vocabulary

public money

• government funds

• large farm on which workers (slaves) usually are not the owners

• supervisor

• the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart.

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segregation

• white-skinned; of European origin
  

• the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart.

• protections from discrimination and other unjust treatment

• supervisor

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plantation

• protections from discrimination and other unjust treatment

• government funds

• white-skinned; of European origin

• large farm on which workers (slaves) usually are not the owners

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caucasian

• the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart.

• white-skinned; of European origin

• protections from discrimination and other unjust treatment

• large farm on which workers (slaves) usually are not the owners

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civil rights

• protections from discrimination and other unjust treatment

• large farm on which workers (slaves) usually are not the owners

• the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart

• supervisor

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How old was Rosa Parks in "My Story Not Just Another Little Girl"

• eight

• six

• ten

• seven

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Where did Rosa Parks go to school when she was six.

• She went to a one-teacher black school in Pine Level, in a little frame schoolhouse.

• She went to school at Mount Zion A.M.E church.

• She went to school in town with the white students.

• She was homeschool by her mom.

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How many students were in Rosa's class?

• A regular size class twenty-seven to thirty students.

• There were fifty to sixty children in the one-room schoolhouse.

• It was her and her brother, Sylvester.

• There were a hundred students who attended the school.

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How old was Rosa when she started reading?

• ten

• three or four

• seven

• five

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What kinds of books did Rosa like to read as a little girl?

• cookbooks

• mystery novels

• Harry Potter

• Fairy tales and Mother-Goose rhymes

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How did the Rosa's school heat their school?

• The boys at the school had to chop and carry wood to heat the school.

• The government heated the school.

• They didn't go to school in the winter.

• They had heater put in the school.

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Who paid to have the white students' school built?

• The whites built the school themselves.

• It was donated to the white students.

• The government paid for a nice, new school for white children.

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Did the government assist African Americans in building and heating their school?

• Yes

• No

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True or False did the black students only had five months of school, while white students had nine months?

• True

• False

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True or False did white children ride a school bus to school, and there was no school bus for the African American children?

• True

• False

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When Rosa would walk to school, what did the white students do when they rode by on the bus?

• The wanted Rosa to ride the bus with them.

• The wave hello to Rosa.

• The children would throw trash out the window at Rosa and the other black children.

• The white students would ride by and didn't say or do anything.