The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963 Christopher Paul Curtis

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963Christopher
Paul Curtis
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963 Introduction

• Kenny knows why his family is
• called The Weird Watsons.
• But Kenny has his own
• problems

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963 Introduction

• - His friend stole his toys.

- His older brother, Byron, is mean to him. -
He thinks his lazy eye makes him look funny.
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963 PLOT

• One day Kennys family decides to take a
  cross-country trip from Michigan to Alabama.

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963 PLOT

• Kennys parents have decided that Byron needs to
  spend a summer in Birmingham with his
  grandmother, wholl teach him how to behave.

Kenny thinks this sounds too good to be true.
Will one of his problems really go away?
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963 CONFLICT

• But in Birmingham, Kennys problems collide with
  Americas problems.

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963 CONFLICT

• On Sunday, September 15, 1963, at 1022 A.M., a
  bomb exploded in the Sixteenth Street Baptist
  Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

Four African American girls were killed.
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963 Resolution

• Kenny matures
• He learns about the world
• He gets a real, big brother

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