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Coretta Scott King? List Some /Cbv]`¸A>C`^]As Clues in an Author’S Purpose Macmillan/Mcgraw-Hill© Map Home-School Connection Word Workout Dear Family Member: This week we are reading My Brother Martin. It’s a WORDS TO KNOW story about Martin Luther King, Jr., a man who made a difference in our lives. His sister, Christine King, writes ancestors injustice avoided about what their lives were like growing up. She tells us segregation unfair numerous what kind of boy he was. It will be interesting to learn how the events of his life infl uenced the kind of man he Words and Our World Let’s use the words to make became. I guess that’s what his sister wants us to know. sentences telling about someone that made a difference in our world. This Week’s Skills SPELLING WORDS Comprehension: author’s purpose (fold here) © Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Vocabulary: prefi xes and suffi xes unblock recall imperfect overheat Spelling/Phonics: prefi xes unborn relearn indirect subway unchain resell incorrect premix unload rewash illegal preplan unlock rewind overact supersize A Perfect Start I’ll make a list of the spelling words leaving out the prefi x. I’ll give you the list. You can add the prefi x. Then we’ll look over your list to see how many words you spelled correctly. Name 75 Leaders to Legends Let’s read all the facts and details for each person. Then, toss a coin and see where it lands. We can write a brief letter from that person’s point of view to someone who wants to know him or her. Rachel Carson was a writer. In 1962 she published a book called Bill Pickett was born in 1870. He was Silent Spring. The book pointed the fi rst African American out the damage pesticides caused cowboy voted into the Rodeo plants. The book made people Hall of Fame. aware of the importance of protecting the environment. © Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Alexander Graham Bell was the inventor of the telephone. In 1876 the fi rst telephone line was opened Deborah in Boston. Sampson was the only woman to serve in the army during the American Revolution. She put on a uniform to hide her identity and took the name Robert Shurtleff. 76 Conexión con el hogar Ejercicio de palabras Queridos familiares: Esta semana estamos leyendo My Brother Martin. Es PALABRAS DE VOCABULARIO un relato sobre Martin Luther King, Jr., un hombre que hizo una diferencia en nuestras vidas. Su hermana, ancestors injustice avoided Christine King, escribe sobre su infancia. Nos cuenta segregation unfair numerous qué clase de niño era él. Va a ser interesante saber cómo los diferentes eventos de su vida tuvieron Las palabras en el mundo Vamos a usar las palabras infl uencia en la clase de hombre que fue. Creo que eso para formar oraciones que describan a alguien que haya es lo que su hermana quiere que sepamos. logrado hacer un buen cambio en nuestro mundo. Destrezas de la semana PALABRAS DE ORTOGRAFÍA Comprensión: propósito del autor (fold here) unblock recall imperfect overheat © Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Vocabulario: los prefi jos y sufi jos unborn relearn indirect subway Ortografía/Fonética: prefi jos unchain resell incorrect premix unload rewash illegal preplan unlock rewind overact supersize Un arranque perfecto Voy a hacer una lista de las palabras de ortografía sin sus prefi jos. Te daré la lista y tu puedes añadirles los prefi jos. Luego veremos tu lista para ver cuántas palabras deletreaste correctamente. Nombre 77 Cartas a famosos Vamos a leer todos los datos y detalles sobre cada persona. Luego, lanza una moneda y mira dónde cae. Después podemos escribir una breve carta desde el punto de vista de esa persona a alguien que quiere conocerla. Rachel Carson was a writer. In 1962 she published a book called Bill Pickett was born in 1870. He was Silent Spring. The book pointed the fi rst African American cowboy out the damage pesticides caused voted into the Rodeo Hall of Fame. plants. The book made people aware of the importance of protecting the environment. © Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Alexander Graham Bell was the inventor of the telephone. In 1876 the fi rst telephone line was opened Deborah in Boston. Sampson was the only woman to serve in the army during the American Revolution. She put on a uniform to hide her identity and took the name Robert Shurtleff. 78 Comprehension Check Summarize 1ZcS 1ZcS 1ZcS Why did the author write about Coretta Scott King? List some /cbV]`¸a>c`^]aS clues in an Author’s Purpose Macmillan/McGraw-Hill© Map. Then tell the author’s Coretta purpose. Use the map to summarize Coretta Scott King’s life. Scott Think and Compare 1. Look at Chapter 1. How do you think the writer King feels about segregation? What facts support your ideas? (Evaluate Author’s Purpose) 2. Do you agree that nonviolent actions are the best way to bring about change? Why or why by Robert O’Brien not? (Synthesize) 3. Big changes in history often come from one person taking a stand. What might the history books of the future say about Coretta Scott Scott King Coretta King? (Analyze) Table of Contents Chapter 1 The Beginning . .2 Chapter 2 A Turning Point . .8 Chapter 3 Carrying On. .14 Glossary/Index . .19 Comprehension Check . .20 20 Glossary Chapter 1 apartheid (uh-PAHR-tighd) the government policy of racial The Beginning segregation at one time practiced in South Africa (page 16) Coretta Scott King never planned on being a Macmillan/McGraw-Hill© boycott (BOY-kot) to refuse to buy from or deal with a civil rights leader. She thought she would become person, nation, or business (page 8) a teacher or a singer. Instead she became a leader civil rights (SIV-uhl RIGHTS) the rights of every citizen of in the fight for equal rights. a country, including the right to vote and the right to Coretta Scott was born in 1927 in a small equal protection under the law (page 2) town in Alabama. She walked three miles to get integrated (IN-ti-gray-tuhd) including people of all races to school each morning. And she walked three (page 4) miles back each afternoon. Every day she watched Jim Crow Laws (JIM KROH LAWZ) a set of rules practiced school buses drive white children to their school. in the United States before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that allowed “separate but equal” facilities for African In those days segregation was the law in the Americans (page 3) South. African Americans could not go to certain protest (PROH-test) an organized public demonstration of restaurants. They could not drink from certain disapproval or complaint (page 13) water fountains. They had to sit in the back of public buses. Black children and white children segregation (seg-ri-GAY-shuhn) the practice of setting one race, class, or ethnic group apart from another (page 2) went to separate schools. Scott King Coretta Coretta’s father Obadiah (oh-buh-DIGH-uh) Index was the first African American in his county to own his own truck. Some white truckers felt that bus boycott, 8–9, 16 NAACP, 5 he was taking away their business. One day the Coretta Scott King Award, 17, 18 Parks, Rosa, 8 Scotts came home from church to find that King, Jr., Martin Luther, 6–18 Southern Christian their home had burned down. Coretta never forgot Mandela, Nelson, 17 Leadership Conference, 12 how hard her father worked to rebuild it. Montgomery, Alabama, 6, 8–9, 16 2 19 Coretta Scott King also worked to create a Jim Crow Laws national holiday in memory of her husband. Jim Crow Laws kept black and white Americans After many years of speeches and fundraising, from taking part in many things alongside she succeeded. In 1986 Martin Luther King, Jr.’s each other. The laws were supposed to create birthday, January 15, became a national holiday. Macmillan/McGraw-Hill© “separate but equal” schools, hospitals and parks. This did not happen. Public buildings for African Coretta Scott King believed that young Americans were usually in bad shape. African people must read and learn so they can better Americans were unable to get the education or themselves. The American Library Association jobs they deserved. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 made Jim Crow Laws illegal. gives the Coretta Scott King Award in her honor. Coretta Scott King died on January 31, 2006. She was 78 years old. At her funeral she was honored as a true hero. As Coretta Scott King Signs like these were (right) looks on, President a common sight when Ronald Reagan signs a Scott King Coretta Coretta Scott was proclamation making the growing up. celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday a national holiday. 18 3 Obadiah Scott earned enough money to build a sawmill. One morning the sawmill was burned to the ground. Coretta’s father did not meet violence with violence. He kept hauling lumber in his truck. He didn’t back down. But he didn’t strike Macmillan/McGraw-Hill© back. This lesson stayed with his daughter. Coretta Scott graduated from high school in 1945. Then she attended Antioch (AN-tee-ahk) College; an integrated school in Ohio. None of her ancestors had ever gone to college. Coretta studied to become a teacher. She also studied music. She had a good singing voice. And she played the violin. Nelson Mandela The time came for Coretta to do her practice Nelson Mandela (seen here with Coretta Scott teaching. None of the schools in the area would King) fought injustice in South Africa using some allow an African American student teacher to of the same methods as Martin Luther King, Jr.
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