The War of the Wall by Toni Cade Bambara

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The War of the Wallby Toni Cade Bambara
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What you need to know!

• In the 1960s, some African-American artists
  started a wall of respect movement.
• The artists worked to create special places by
  painting murals on walls in their communities as
  symbols of their respect for the neighborhoods.

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• Because African American artists were excluded
  from mainstream museums and galleries these
  murals were painted to show the struggle by
  African Americans
• The purpose was to gain
• the rights of recognition and citizenship
• This important form of public art has served to
  heal and unify communities and build
  multicultural understanding

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Walls of Heritage, Walls of PrideAfrican
American Murals
Knowledge is Power, Stay in School Philadelphia
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Knowledge is Power, Stay in School Dana Chandler

• A thin mural that runs along the top of the side
  of a building, its color scheme is mostly gold,
  red, green and black, which symbolizes African
  pride and unity. A man standing in the centre has
  his arms outstretched like Christ on the cross,
  with a book in each hand. Around him are other
  people and figures that represent the
  African-American of the past and present, from
  tribesmen to soldiers to teachers. Artsolutly
  Awesome North Philly.

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We're All in the Same Gang Jameel Parker Boston
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Mandela Paul
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Connect to History!!

• The story mentions four important leaders in the
  American civil rights movement.
• Harriet Tubman (1820-1913)
• The escaped slave who helped smuggle more than
  300 enslaved persons out of slave states. She
  was also a spy for the Union army during the
  Civil war.

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• Civil rights leaders of the 1960s who were
  assassinated.
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
• King used nonviolent tactics such as boycotts
  to oppose segregation and was awarded the Nobel
  Prize for Peace.
• Malcolm X (1925-1965)
• Malcolm X preached a militant and
  separatist philosophy.

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• Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977)
• Fannie was a sharecroppers daughter who
  repeatedly risked her life so that she and other
  African Americans could gain the right to vote.

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• Malcom X
• Childhood Heroes
• For this page, I felt that it would be
• cool for me to list a few of my
• childhood heroes growing up.  A lot
• of my work ethics and expressions
• are reflective from these individuals.
• Under each picture, there are 3 words
• of how I would describe each individual.

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Muhammad Ali                                   
                                                  
      
Pride-Talent-Humorous
Bob Marley  Unity-Hope-Musical legend
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• Michael Jordan
• Goals-Entrepreneur-Ambitious

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• With your group, list the names of some heroes of
  your own that you would include in a wall of
  respect.

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Words to Know

• Use the definitions in your Interactive Reader
  to determine which word fits best in the
  sentence.
• beckon inscription drawl
• I had trouble understanding Bills _______-his
  slow, drawn-out way of speaking.
• Elisabeth _____to me from across the gym, waving
  me toward her with her hand.
• The ____on the statue dedicated it to the fallen
  soldiers in Vietnam.

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Words to Know

• liberation scheme chisel rearing
• The president demanded the _____of the prisoners,
  saying that it was wrong to keep them in jail.
• The frightened horse started rearing up on its
  hind legs.
• As soon as the babysitter arrived, the twins
  began to ___up ways to annoy her.
• A few people ____their names into the big rock,
  using a penknife.

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Target Skills

• Cause and Effect Cause-and-effect relationships
  drive this story.
• Read to find out how the painters actions
  affect the narrator, Lou and the other
  characters.
• Dialect What is dialect?
• The author makes her story more realistic by
  having the narrator and the other characters use
  expressions from a particular dialect.
• Put a check mark next to any words or phrases you
  dont understand.