G4 ELA - Brown Girl Dreaming Lesson 1

It helps us understand the struggles for equality and justice.

It is just a part of history with no relevance today.

It only affected a small group of people.

It was a short event with little impact.

A category of literature, music, or art

A conversation between people or characters

A person who writes a story

The main subject of a book, play, or speech

They could not attend the same schools as white people

They could not eat at the same restaurants as white people

They had to sit in certain seats on buses

All of the above

It was an organization that worked to end segregation in the South

It was a group of bus drivers in Montgomery

It was a school for African American children

It was a restaurant chain in Alabama

Buses were integrated and African Americans could sit wherever they wanted.

The boycott lasted for 382 days.

The Supreme Court ruled that segregated bus seating was unconstitutional.

Rosa Parks was awarded the Medal of Freedom.

Presidential Medal of Freedom

Congressional Gold Medal of Honor

Pulitzer Prize

Spingarn Medal

The end of the United States Civil War

Jacqueline Woodson's birth

Rosa Parks/Montgomery Bus Boycott

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s March on Washington

Uses first person point of view

Includes descriptive language

Focuses only on fictional events

Makes importance of event or experience clear to reader

Late 1800s to early 1900s

1950s to 1960s

1980s to 1990s

2000s to present