"I Have a dream"

How does the political cartoon represent equal rights differently than the I Have a Dream speech ? (R.3.3)

• The cartoon depicts the way a lot of people think

• the cartoon depicts what the world was like before the speech was given

• the cartoon portrays and opposite perspective that wants to keep things unequal

• the cartoon portrays everyone wanting equal rights

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CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.7

"We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in  the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. 

7   We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We  can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their adulthood and robbed of their dignity  by signs stating “For Whites Only.” 

8     We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and the Negro in New York  believes he has nothing for which to vote. "

How does the author’s use of lists in these paragraphs achieve her purpose for the text?

• The lists illustrate how terrible a place the world is because of all the natural disasters that have occurred.

• The lists illustrate humankind’s many and varied personality flaws that have caused such chaos and disorganization in society.

• The lists emphasize the many ways in which the author believes that racism has messed up the country and the ways we could help fix it.

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CCSS.RI.6.6

CCSS.RI.6.9

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RI.8.9

CCSS.RL.8.6

     "In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our Republic wrote  the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a  promissory note to which every American was to fall heir."

What does the author mean when he says "In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check."?

• We have come to collect payment for our mistreatment

• We have come to pay for the wrongs that we have done

• We have come to collect the equality and rights that were promised to us

• We have come to peacefully protest

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

For each quote, select whether the sentence develops the central idea that it is important to give equal rights

 "We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our  creative protests to degenerate into physical violence"

• Yes

• No

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

For each quote, select whether the sentence develops the central idea that we are entitled to the same employment and wealth opportunities

"One hundred years later the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of  material prosperity."

• Yes

• No

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CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.2

For each quote, select whether the sentence develops the central idea that many non-black persons supported the protest for equal rights.

"The marvelous new militancy which has  engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust all white people, for many of our white  brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up  with our destiny."

• Yes

• No

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

Equal Right will lead to African American surpassing white Americans economically

• Abductive

• Inductive

Equal job opportunities will lead to wealthier, African American, households.

• Inductive

• Abductive

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CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.8