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Winter Break Packet


This will count as 1 reading response
Assignment #1
Directions:
1. Read and Annotate the Comic Book, Martin Luther King and The
Montgomery Story.
2. Answer the questions that follow on LOOSE LEAF PAPER
Questions:
1.

Choose five key details to complete the timeline of the events that lead up to Dr. Martin Luther King
Junior becoming a civil rights leader.

Page 1, Box 4
Martin finished
high school at 15
and entered more
house college in
Atlanta

Page 1, Box 5

2.

Use textual evidence from the comic book to support your answer to this question: Why did Rosa Parks give
up her seat on the bus? (RIFT)

3.

What effect did Rosa Parks action have on the Civil Rights Movement? Use textual evidence from the
comic book to support your answer. (RIFT)

4.

What does Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. mean when he says, Better to walk with dignity than ride in
humiliation Use an example to support your answer

5.

What is the main idea of the comic book? Choose 5 quotes and explain why they support the main idea.

6.

What was the overall message of the Montgomery Bus Boycott? (How did people act in order to resist
injustice) Use evidence to support your answer.

7.

Compare and contrast how the Montgomery Method was used during the Montgomery Bus Boycott and
the Campaign for Freedom in India using a Venn diagram.

8. What text structure does the author use to get across the message?
A. States a claim about the method and then supports it with data
B. States message about method and lists small paragraphs about how it works.
C. States a message about a claim using pictures
D. States an anecdote to draw a reader into the scene

Why did you choose your answer?

9. Which piece of textual evidence BEST supports the image of the man looking into the mirror?
A. God loves your enemy too
B. You have to see him as a human being like your self
C. You have to understand him and sympathize with him
D. He is your brother even when he hurts you
Why did you choose your answer?

10. Which piece of textual evidence DOES NOT support helping your enemy to see you as a human being?
A.
B.
C.
D.

He has to see you as a person who wans the same kind of thing he wants: love, a family, a job, the
respect of his neighbors
If you act like a brother
Giving up
You must not strike back

Why did you choose your answer?

11. What is the meaning of the following quote? Translate it by putting it into your own words:
He is a human being and so he can treat you badly because, somehow, he is afraid of you, or of what you might do
to him. If you try to stop him by using violence and by getting even, he will be sure he is right in being afraid of
you.
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Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not?
12. Which is the BEST evidence that supports this claim:
If you show him live, though, you start to take away the reason for his fear and you make it harder for him to go on
hating you.
A. Decide what special thing youre going to work on.
B. Know the facts about the situation
C. Explain how you feel and why you feel as you do
D. Practice situations as we did in Montgomery. Make sure you can face any opposition without hitting
back, or running away, or hating.
Why did you choose your answer?

13. Do you think the Montgomery method works? Why or why not?
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Assignment #2:
Directions:Read the excerpt from, Rosa Parks Was Not the Beginning, by J.
Douglas Allen-Taylor and answer the questions below
The civil rights icon resisted her own deification and tried to tell the truth about what
really happened in the months leading up to 1955's Montgomery bus boycott.
At the time of Ms. Parks' historic act in the mid-1950s, there were a number of AfricanAmerican organizations in Montgomery--some of them based in the black church, some
of them with ties to the union movement, some of them based in the black business or
educational establishments--that had long been working to end racial segregation in
public accommodations in that city. Rosa Parks herself was secretary of the local branch
of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which had
membership from all of those factions.
As the story is told by those who were there at the time, in refusing to give up her seat,
Ms. Parks actually repeated an action that had been taken several weeks before by
another young black woman.
Black Montgomery leaders briefly considered making that earlier action a test case, but
decided against it when they learned that the young woman had a child out of wedlock.
Afraid that Montgomery's white segregationist establishment would pound on that
single fact--"n****** dropping babies without fathers"--to turn local and national
attention away from the issue of segregation, the black leaders searched around for
someone who could not be attacked on such "moral" grounds.
Rosa Parks was chosen, and the refuse-to-give-up-her-seat-on-the-bus incident was
restaged so that she could be arrested, and the black bus boycott instituted as a
"spontaneous" response of outrage.
1. Why was Rosa Parks specifically chosen to give up her seat? Answer in one
paragraph using the R.I.F.T format.
2. Why was this action important for the Civil Rights movement? Use details to
support your response
Assignment #3
Directions: Visit the following website:
http://www.montgomeryboycott.com/biographies/
Choose read one of the biographies about someone that you have never
heard of and write a one-page report about the persons role in the
Montgomery Bus Boycott and their role in the Civil Rights Movement.

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