1. My Brother Martin by: Christine King Farris
4th Grade
O’Neal Elementary

2. Vocabulary unfair: not fair or just unsuspecting: trusting
ancestors: people in the past from whom one comes
injustice: unfairness
avoided: stayed away from
segregation: the practice of setting one racial group apart from another
numerous: forming a large number; many
Vocabulary Activity Round One
Vocabulary Activity Round Two
Coretta Scott King
Susan B. Anthony

3. Vocabulary Words in Context
Rosa Parks
You can learn from your _____. Your grandfather or grandmother may remember a time in America when African Americans weren’t allowed to sit in the same parts of a bus as white people. It was a time of _____, when laws weren’t always fair.
It wasn’t that way in every place in America. In many areas, children of all races played together, unaware of _____.
Not everyone agreed with the way things were done.

4. Vocabulary Story Words
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
waning: becoming smaller or fewer in number
streetcar: a vehicle that holds many passengers and runs on rails through city streets
indignity: something that insults a person’s self-respect
bigotry: hatred or intolerance toward an entire group of people; prejudice

5. Vocabulary/Word Work Prefixes
Marshall Thurgood
A prefix is added to the beginning of a base word or root.
Prefixes change the meaning of the words to which they are attached.
un means “not”
What do you think unfair means?
Not every word that begins with un- is a base with a prefix, for example , union and universe.
Race to Ramses!

6. Phonics Decode Words with Silent Letters
Harriet Tubman
Some words have silent consonants, or letters that are not pronounced.
knife write
If you say the word knife. You hear the beginning sound is /n/. The letter k is silent. In write, the beginning sound is /r/. The w is silent.
The Amazing Silent Letters

7. Fluency Repeated Reading: Punctuation
“Why do white people treat colored people so mean?” M.L. asked Mother Dear afterward. And with me and M.L. and A.D. standing in front of her trying our best to understand. Mother Dear gave the reason behind it all.
Her words explained the streetcars our family avoided and the WHITES ONLY sign that kept us off the elevator at City Hall. Her words told why there were parks and museums that black people could not visit and why some restaurants refused to serve us and why hotels wouldn’t give us rooms and why theaters would only allow us to watch their picture shows from the balcony.
But her words also gave us hope.

8. Comprehension Make Inferences
Make Inferences to understand things the author does not directly state in the story.
To make inferences, readers can use information from the text, illustrations, and things they already know to help them make connections.
Inferences about Plot
Practice Inferences

9. Comprehension Letters
Letters are written messages that people send to each other.
Letters can be hand written or typed.
Letters may appear in different forms, such as a friendly letter or a business letter.

10. Comprehension Salutation and Body
A salutation is the line in the letter in which the writer greets the person to whom she or he is writing.
A salutation usually uses the word Dear to greet the person.
The body of a letter is the main part of the letter containing the message.
The body is divided into one or more paragraphs.
Practice: Friendly Letters

11. Review Reading Strategies
In what ways did evaluating the author’s purpose help you to understand the biography?
Do you understand the strategy of visualizing events as you read? When might you use this strategy again?
What strategies did you use when you came to difficult words?

12. 1.6 My Brother Martin
Define unsuspecting as used on page 312 using context clues. Explain how the clues helped you figure out the meaning.
Why does the author choose to tell so much about Martin’s childhood?

13. 1.6 My Brother Martin
Explain what the simile used in the text on page 312 means, and explain which clues from the passage helped you figure out the meaning.

14. 1.7 My Brother Martin
Analyze the author’s perspective on Civil Rights? Do you think the author is biased in her views? Explain why or why not using information from the passage to support your answer.

15. 1.8 My Brother Martin
Complete the chart below to show the author’s three main points and a supporting detail for each main point.

16. 2.1 Letter Writing
Write a letter to a friend telling him or her what Civil Rights is all about.

17. 2.4 Dear Mrs. Parks
What is the author’s purpose for writing this passage? Explain your answer using information from the passage as support.

18. 2.4 My Brother Martin
Is My Brother Martin an appropriate title for this passage? Explain why or why not using details and/or examples from the passage as support.

19. 3.5 It Took Courage
Summarize the main ideas in the passage.