Choice: A Tribute to Dr' Martin Luther King, Jr'

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Choice A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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About the Author

• Alice Walker was born in 1944 in Eatonton, GA
• Her father was a sharecropper and her mother was
  a maid
• She is best known for her novel The Color Purple

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Make the Connection

• Tribute-A way of giving honor or paying homage
• Dr. King brought the message of civil rights
  through non-violent protests to a world
  television audience
• Civil Disobedience
• An ideology adopted from Mohatma Ghandi

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Things to Notice

• Setting and audience for this speech by Alice
  Walker
• Implied Main idea
• Discover it by making inferences
• Look at key statements that give clues to the
  main idea

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Things to Notice

• What role did television play in the Civil Rights
  Movement?
• How did seeing Dr. Kings resistance change Alice
  Walkers ideas about her own future?
• What link does Alice Walker make between the idea
  of home and the idea of continuity?

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Definition essay

• Prewriting

Dictionary Meaning
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Elaboration How this relates to dispossession
Elaboration How this relates to dispossession
Elaboration How this relates to dispossession