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I have a Dream

ראש הטופס

  Can you guess the words to the 'Dream' speech? If you get stuck, click on the hint button.

...I have a that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true of its creed: "We hold these to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

תחתית הטופס

Now you are going to read about Rosa Parks.

Rosa Parks is considered the"Mother of the Civil Rights Movement". On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to get up out of her seat on a public bus to make room for a white passenger. Parks was arrested by the police and convicted for violating the laws.

This shows Rosa Parks' way of expressing her non-violent protest for the continuous discrimination of Black Americans in the South. After this incident, 50 African-American leaders gathered and organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott to protest against the segregation of Blacks and Whites on public buses. With the support of most of Montgomery's 50,000 Blacks, the boycott lasted for 381 days until the local segregating system of African-Americans and Whites on public buses was canceled.  

Consulted Sources: 

Now, Can you summarize orally who Rosa Parks was? (A question to the whole class) Write down what you have learned from the text and class discussion. Use your own words and write at least two sentences.

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Rosa Parks hated the ways of her life. She had always dreamed of having freedom in her life. As she grew up, she went through different experiences that gave her courage and strength.

One day, Rosa Parks had so much courage and strength that when her bus arrived to pick her up, she got on the bus, put her money in the slot, and sat in the front of the bus. Black people were supposed to sit in the back. The bus driver told her to move to the back, but she just sat there and refused to move. The driver called the police and they arrested Rosa Parks.

The next day, Raymond Parks went to pick up Rosa from jail. When they got home, Rosa spoke about her time in jail. She had stood up to get a drink of water and the guard told her the drinking fountain was only for white people. This made her furious.

On Dec. 5, 1955, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr. and JoAnn Robinson looked out of their windows, stood on street corners around the city and watched the yellow buses pass by. There were hardly any black riders since Rosa Park's arrest. It was a miracle. People stopped riding the buses all because of Rosa Parks.

Soon, the police were informed of the people standing on the street corners watching the buses drive by. The police patrolled the streets to make sure that the black people were not bothering the other bus riders. The black people continued their boycott, and it was a success.

A few months later, Rosa Parks once again started to climb aboard a bus. She stopped when she noticed a sign that read, "People don't ride the bus today. Don't ride the bus for freedom." She got off.

Finally the rules for riding the buses were changed. The new rules said:

1. Black and white people could sit wherever they wanted to sit.2. Bus drivers were to respect all riders. 3. Black people were now allowed to apply for driver positions.

A lot of people wrote hate mail to Rosa Parks. Some people called and threatened her and her family. She and her family were scared. They knew they were in serious danger, but Rosa Parks would not give up.

In 1979, Rosa Parks received the Spingarn Medal. In 1980, at the 25th anniversary celebration of the bus boycott, Parks was awarded the Martin Luther King, Jr. Non-violent Peace Prize. In 1984, she was given the Eleanor Roosevelt Woman of Courage Award.

Rosa Parks is known as a national hero and as a shy girl who stood up against racism and fought for freedom

From: http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=rosaParks
Activity 1: Read the text again and underline the words and expressions that help you understand the sequence of events, and then number the sentences given in the order in which they happened. Along with reading and underlining use the list of connectors below.

Activity 2: Fill in the following table with years and events of Rosa Parks' life. Remember how you were trained in Sequencing.

Years	Events of Rosa Parks' life
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*There is an extra Ex. in appendix 2

Dear pupils, now it is time for talking (writing?) about both MLK & Rosa Parks.

Fill in the following table to compare and contrast the personal life and/or achievements of both MLK and Rosa Parks. Please use the C&C connectors that you learnt in forming the sentences.

Introduction:

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   A few introductory words about these two leaders- MLK and Rosa Parks: who they were and why it important to write about them:
   

1. Read the poem with the pupils and ask them some questions about it.

Dear pupils, now we are going to read a poem written about Rosa Parks by Rita Dove and then you have to write a composition expressing your personal feelings and attitudes about the issues of the Civil Rights Movement this poem might represent in your opinion.  

Rosa

How she sat there,

Doing nothing was the doing:

How she stood up

From : http://www.insomniacathon.org/rrIRD01.html

Dear pupils! As you know the art of poetry includes understanding the denotations of words and their singular daily meanings (This is true of all RC, not only poetry.Maybe you mean denotations and connotations to get to the multi-layered contexts and meanings? This is much too complicated for your students. Just tell them what they have to do.). The audience enjoys reading poetry because every individual may discover and extract diverse multi-layered contexts and meanings. Here, you have following questions and you are not expected to have definite singular answers. However, answering them, you may discover your own personal point of view of what this poem is about.

Good Luck….in your journey of discovering the wonderful, yet unpredicted world of poetry!!!!

Now in groups of 2-3 please read the poem together and answer the following questions:

Questions:

1) Look at the first stanza ("Bait" in Hebrew), line two: How can we understand the sentence: "…the time right inside a place so wrong was ready"? Name at least two ways for interpreting this line in light of Rosa Park's actions. Explain.

A teacher may help the students in clarifying the meanings of the single words of this sentence at first and then, in matching specific meanings of these words with one another until they get together to various explanations of the whole sentence.

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2) What was Rosa Parks' occupation? ....................................................

3) Look up the word "trim" in the dictionary and write down at least two definitions.

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4) What is the connection between the meaning of the word 'Trim" and Rosa Parks biography? Explain.

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5) Why does a poet refer to the name-Rosa Parks to one's dream to rest on a bench?

6) Why does the word "dream" have a connotation of an impossible wish?

7) Why does a poet emphasize Rosa Parks' image by paying attention to her "sensible coat"? What does the word "sensible" mean? Look it up at the dictionary.

Write, at least, two meanings:

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8) How does this expression contribute to the whole theme of the poem? Try to describe your feelings imagining Rosa Parks' image.

9) Look at the third stanza. To what event in Rosa Parks' life does a voice of the poem refer to while saying "Doing nothing was the doing"……………….?

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10) How do you explain an expression "the clean flame of her gaze"?

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Can only one's gaze influence a public the way a speech does in our ordinary life? What do you think? Share your own examples with the whole class.

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11) Why does a voice of the poem connect the word "carved" which belongs to the art of sculpture with a word "camera" belonging to the art of photography or videotaping? What notion does it convey to us, readers when these two words are put together?

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12) How does a word "flash" refer to the art of photography, videotaping or filmmaking? What do you think?

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13) Look at the fourth stanza. To what event does this stanza refer? (A teacher should explain if needed: As rumor has it, Rosa Parks dropped her purse while police arrested lead her to step down from the bus. Some of the white people in the scene bent down to her knees to retrieve the purse and hand it to her)

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14) Does this event show that the social positions between Black and White Americans were stable, fixed and irreversible? What do you think?

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15) What does the word "courtesy" mean? Look it up in the dictionary and write down at least two meanings. To what specific group of population (Black or White Americans) does this word refer? The answer to this question does not count, but what counts is an explanation!!!

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16) Why did this poem receive a Pulitzer Prize (Do they know what that is?)? What do you think? Explain.

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17) Choose one sentence that you like in this poem and explain why.

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Assignment: Write an article to your school magazine about what the poem "Rosa" by Rita Dove is about. Feel free to express your thoughts, ideas and attitudes which are related to the Civil Rights Movement. Support your statements with textual evidences and explanations.

Remember you should go through all the stages of writing:*

1. Writing a Plan.

2. Writing a rough Draft.

3. Revising your work

4. Editing your work

5. Writing your Final version.

8. Teach the pupils the song "We Shall Overcome"

1. Give the pupils a short introduction about the song "We Shall Overcome"

Dear pupils,

"We Shall Overcome" is a protest song of the US civil rights movement. It was sung on the marches of protest and demonstrations against Black Americans’ racial discrimination as well as social and political inequality. 

After reading the song, please answer the following questions with a partner. Then, you are going to share your answers with the whole class. In the end, we are going to visit one Internet site and listen to the song and sing along with the singer.

Dear pupils, Dear students! The following song is not a difficult one. Just enjoy reading and discussing its themes with your teacher and classmates:

We shall overcome,  
We shall overcome,  
We shall overcome, some day. 
 
Oh, deep in my heart, 
I do believe 
We shall overcome, some day. 
 
We’ll walk hand in hand,  
We’ll walk hand in hand,  
We’ll walk hand in hand, some day. 
 
Oh, deep in my heart, 
 
We shall live in peace,  
We shall live in peace,  
We shall live in peace, some day. 
 
Oh, deep in my heart, 
 
We shall all be free,  
We shall all be free,  
We shall all be free, some day. 
 
Oh, deep in my heart, 
 
We are not afraid,  
We are not afraid,  
We are not afraid, TODAY  
 
Oh, deep in my heart, 
 
We shall overcome,  
We shall overcome,  
We shall overcome, some day. 
 
Oh, deep in my heart, 
I do believe 
We shall overcome, some day.   

Questions:

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   What is the meaning of the word 'to overcome' in this song? Find the definition in your dictionary or write it in your own words.
   

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   Who do you think sings this song?
   

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   Why do you think people want to sing this song?
   

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   When do you think people sing this song?
   

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   What kind of obstacles do these people want to overcome?
   

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6. Choose one sentence that you like and explain why you like it.

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   Complete your own sentences:
   

We shall all be free some day………………………………………………..

We are not afraid…………………………………………………………….  

We are not alone……………………………………………………………  

Ask the pupils to visit the following site in order to listen to the song and sing it along with Joan Baez: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkNsEH1GD7Q

Write an article to your school magazine in which you discuss (by comparing and contrasting) the important qualities and/or achievements of both MLK and Rosa Parks.

You may relate to the following points:

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  Ways of struggle.
  
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  Dreams of both heroes
  
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  The life of both heroes
  
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  Personal traits
  

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  Remember you should go through all the stages of writing
  
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  Remember to use comparison connectors when comparing the two characters.
  

Dear Khuloud and Liz,

You corrected all my comments. Good for you!

I think it is a wonderful unit. Enjoy teaching it!

Judy

Appendix A:

Now, highlight the prominent characteristics of Rosa Parks in a different color. Fill in the following table matching Rosa Parks' actions with her traits of character required for these specific actions. Find al least five (5) matches.

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Teachers can give in-between grades e.g. 9 pts.

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  If the format of presentation does not include all the required elements, deduct up to 2 points.
  

TOTAL: ___ / 30

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