Rosa Parks Biography and Poem

Rosa Parks Biography and Poem

Non-Fiction

Multiple Choice

What did the people of Montgomery do to help support Rosa and to fight back?

• They rioted in the streets.

• They destroyed most of the city buses.

• They boycotted by refusing to ride the city buses.

• All of the above

• None of the above

Multiple Choice

What happened to Rosa when she refused to give up her seat on the bus?

• She was charged extra for the ride.

• She was banned from riding the bus.

• She was arrested.

• She was given a warning.

• Nothing

Multiple Choice

What is it called when people are separated based on race?

• Segregation

• Prohibition

• Suffrage

• Civil Rights

• Boycotting

Multiple Choice

What is Rosa Parks most famous for?

• Being the first black student to attend a white elementary school in the South

• Refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white man

• She was a nurse during the Civil War who founded the American Red Cross

• The first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

• Being an escaped slave who worked on the Underground Railroad

Multiple Choice

1) Where was Rosa Parks born?

• Maryland

• Alabama

• Georgia

• Massachusetts

• Virginia

Rosa Poem

by Rita Dove

Rosa

• How she sat there,

  the time right inside a place

  so wrong it was ready.

  That trim name with

  its dream of a bench

  to rest on. Her sensible coat.

  Doing nothing was the doing:

  the clean flame of her gaze

  carved by a camera flash.

  How she stood up

  when they bent down to retrieve

  her purse. That courtesy.

Open Ended

Paradox

Paradox is a sentence that seems to say the opposite of it means and there is some truth in it. "I always lie" is an example of paradox. If he is telling the truth, this he does not always lie. How is this expressed in line 7 in the poem "Doing nothing was the doing"? Explain

Answer

• The poet uses paradox to express the idea that by doing nothing (being passive), Rosa was doing something something very important.

Open Ended

Read the poem again. Find words of physical description of Rosa.

How she sat there,

the time right inside a place

so wrong it was ready.

That trim name with

its dream of a bench

to rest on. Her sensible coat.

Doing nothing was the doing:

the clean flame of her gaze

carved by a camera flash.

How she stood up

when they bent down to retrieve

her purse. That courtesy.

Open Ended

Answer: Read the poem again. Find words of physical description of Rosa.

How she sat there,

the time right inside a place

so wrong it was ready.

That trim name with

its dream of a bench

to rest on. Her sensible coat.

Doing nothing was the doing:

the clean flame of her gaze

carved by a camera flash.

How she stood up

when they bent down to retrieve

her purse. That courtesy.

Open Ended

Read the poem again. Find examples of her actions and personality traits.

How she sat there,

the time right inside a place

so wrong it was ready.

That trim name with

its dream of a bench

to rest on. Her sensible coat.

Doing nothing was the doing:

the clean flame of her gaze

carved by a camera flash.

How she stood up

when they bent down to retrieve

her purse. That courtesy.

Open Ended

Answer: Read the poem again. Find examples of her actions and personality traits.

How she sat there,

the time right inside a place

so wrong it was ready.

That trim name with

its dream of a bench

to rest on. Her sensible coat.

Doing nothing was the doing:

the clean flame of her gaze

carved by a camera flash.

How she stood up

when they bent down to retrieve

her purse. That courtesy.

Multiple Choice

Which inference can be best made from the following passage?

“the time right inside a place
so wrong it was ready.”

• A. The unjust environment creates an opportunity for Rosa to protest.
• B. Rosa realizes she is mistaken about the route she must take.
• C. Even though transportation is unreliable, Rosa continues to ride.
• D. Rosa is traveling on a crowded bus to make an early appointment.

Multiple Choice

Which inference can be best made about Rosa?

• A. She feels excited to travel.
• B. She is unconcerned with others.
• C. She presents an image of justice and dignity.
• D. She is impatient with passengers. 

Multiple Choice

Which of the following phrases best expresses the dignity that Rosa possessed?

• How she sat there "the time right right inside a place"

• That trim name with "its dream of a bench"

• Doing nothing was the doing "the clean flame of her gaze"

• How she stood up "when they bent down to retrieve" her purse.