Rosa Parks: My Story

1. Rosa Parks: My Story By: Rosa Parks Courage Theme 1, Monitoring Student Progress, Day 1 Taught By: Mr. Williams

2. Theme Wrap Up

3. Civil Rights

4. Activists

5. Petition

6. Segregation

7. Reproach

8. Boycott

9. Plantiff

10. Complied

11. Key Civil Rights Vocabulary • civil rights • The rights that belong to all citizens. • activists • People who actively work for social change. • petition • A document that requests a certain right or benefit. • segregation • The policy of keeping races seperate • reproach • Blame or disapproval • boycott • A protest that involves refusing to buy certain products. • plaintiff • A person who files a lawsuit; someone who has a crime committed against them. • complied • To follow rules or orders

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13. Decoding: un-, re-

14. Rosa Parks: My Story • By: Rosa Parks • Courage • Theme 1, Monitoring Student Progress, Day 2 • Taught By: Mr. Williams

15. Key Civil Rights Vocabulary • civil rights • The rights that belong to all citizens. • activists • People who actively work for social change. • petition • A document that requests a certain right or benefit. • segregation • The policy of keeping races seperate • reproach • Blame or disapproval • boycott • A protest that involves refusing to buy certain products. • plaintiff • A person who files a lawsuit; someone who has a crime committed against them. • complied • To follow rules or orders

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17. Comprehension Strategy:Sequence of Events Using a Frame and Arrow Map, sequence what you think at the five most important events of the story.

18. Vocabulary:Parts of a Dictionary Entry dis•cre•tion(diskresh’en) n. 1. a freedom or authority to make decisions. 2. the quality of being discrete or careful. dis•crim•i•nate(diskrim’ inät’) v. 1. to make distinctions in difference and prejudice. Write a sample sentence with the first definition of discretion. What part of Speech is discriminate. Write a sentence using the second definition of discretion.

19. Vocabulary:Dictionary Guide Words The words listed in a diction are are called entry words . These words are arranged in alphabetical order. Guide words usually appear at the top of a dictionary page to help locate entry words.

20. Rosa Parks: My Story • By: Rosa Parks • Courage • Theme 1, Monitoring Student Progress, Day 3 • Taught By: Mr. Williams

21. Key Civil Rights Vocabulary • civil rights • The rights that belong to all citizens. • activists • People who actively work for social change. • petition • A document that requests a certain right or benefit. • segregation • The policy of keeping races seperate • reproach • Blame or disapproval • boycott • A protest that involves refusing to buy certain products. • plaintiff • A person who files a lawsuit; someone who has a crime committed against them. • complied • To follow rules or orders

22. Vocabulary:Using Context Clues His fingers gingerly touched a group of needles that had been driven into the fleshy part of his calf. Just touching the needles made the pain more intense. It was painstaking work, slow work, and he stayed with it for over two hours. A word’s context clues are all of the other words, and the sentence that gives clues to a words meaning. Use context clues to define the underlined words in the story above.

23. Vocabulary:Possessives & Contractions Possessive nouns are nouns that show ownership. Contractions are made when two words are joined with an apostrophe. Choose two possessives and two contractions. Then write a good descriptive sentence for each one.

24. Vocabulary:Parts of a Dictionary Entry dis•cre•tion(diskresh’en) n. 1. a freedom or authority to make decisions. 2. the quality of being discrete or careful. dis•crim•i•nate(diskrim’ inät’) v. 1. to make distinctions in difference and prejudice. Write a sample sentence with the first definition of discretion. What part of Speech is discriminate. Write a sentence using the second definition of discretion.

25. Comprehension Strategy:Cause and Effect Using a Multi-Flow Map, choose an important event in the story and give three actual or possible causes and effects of that event.

26. Rosa Parks: My Story • By: Rosa Parks • Courage • Theme 1, Monitoring Student Progress, Day 4 • Taught By: Mr. Williams

27. Key Civil Rights Vocabulary • civil rights • The rights that belong to all citizens. • activists • People who actively work for social change. • petition • A document that requests a certain right or benefit. • segregation • The policy of keeping races seperate • reproach • Blame or disapproval • boycott • A protest that involves refusing to buy certain products. • plaintiff • A person who files a lawsuit; someone who has a crime committed against them. • complied • To follow rules or orders

28. Civil Rights

29. Activists

30. Petition

31. Segregation

32. Reproach

33. Boycott

34. Plantiff

35. Complied

36. In the News Choose one of the Newspaper articles available and on a piece of notebook paper, answer the following questions about the article you chose. Where and when is the article talking about? What is the article about? Why did it happen and why is this important? Who is the article about?

37. Word Sort

38. Rosa Parks: My Story • By: Rosa Parks • Courage • Theme 1, Monitoring Student Progress, Day 5 • Taught By: Mr. Williams

39. When You Are Finished After you finish your Theme Skills Test: • Make sure your name, date, and assignment are written clearly on the top left of the paper. • Turn your test paper to me and put your answer key in the reading basket. • Finish your Mountain Language. • Read a book of your choice.