Claudette Colvin Chapter 1

      “How do people affect social change?”

identify the part of speech of the word effect in this Essential Question.

• Verb

• Adjective

• Adverb

• Noun

·“What kind of change is the Essential Question suggesting?”

• change that happens on a large scale, within communities or at the level of society. This is change that affects a large number of people, not just one or two people.

• 
  change that contributes to improving or solving problems that affect a large number of people; change that makes the world a better place for many people.§ 

• 
  A change in the political system

• All of the above

“I swear to the Lord / I still can’t see / Why Democracy means / Everybody but me.” —Langston Hughes

·         “How does this quote from Langston Hughes help you better understand what Martin Luther King, Jr. means by injustice?”

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  The quote from Langston Hughes helps understand injustice by highlighting the feeling of exclusion and inequality.

• 
  The quote from Langston Hughes helps understand injustice by emphasizing the benefits of democracy.

• The quote from Langston Hughes helps understand injustice by promoting equality and fairness.

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  The quote from Langston Hughes helps understand injustice by highlighting the positive aspects of society

    “What do you think this text will be about based on these two epigraphs?”

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

&

“I swear to the Lord / I still can’t see / Why Democracy means / Everybody but me.” —Langston Hughes

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  Justice and equality

• Love and compassion

• Freedom and liberty

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  Injustice and democracy

What is the meaning of "segregation"?

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  Combining different groups of people based on certain characteristics

• Equal treatment of all groups of people without any discrimination

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  Separation or isolation of a specific group of people based on certain characteristics

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  Exclusion of a specific group of people based on certain characteristics

Select a definition of “justifiable”

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  Not capable of being justified

• Unreasonable or unjust

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  Unable to be shown to be right or reasonable

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  Able to be shown to be right or reasonable

The Montgomery bus system had it's own rules and traditions when it came to Jim Crow. Who were the first 10 seats on the bus reserved for?

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  White Women

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  Black passengers until a white person needed to sit down

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  White Men

• 
  Whites only

What was the job of Jim Crow?

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  To regulate the bus system

• To keep the races separate and the blacks poor

• Jim Crow was a union man

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  To separate all races of people

Why did the author name chapter 1 Jim Crow and Detested Number Ten

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  To tell us about the man who started racism in the south

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  To explain the Jim Crow south and the 10 laws blacks had to follow

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  To tell us about how the 10 members of Jim Crow got started in the south and how blacks suffered.

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  To explain the living conditions of blacks dealing with laws of the Jim Crow south and the number of seats on the buses reserved for white people

Chapter 1 talks about a few black people that stood up to bus drivers, which person was NOT mentioned in this chapter?

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  Geneva Johnson

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  Harold Bass

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  Hilliard Brooks

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  Edwina Johnson