Unit 7

Martin Luther King

Group 1: Brown vs. Board of EducationGroup 2: Montgomery Bus BoycottGroup 3: March on WashingtonGroup 4: Signing of Civil Rights ActGroup 5: King’s Nobel LectureGroup 6: Assassination of Martin Luther

King

Pre-Class Research: group work

G1 and G2: Be prepare to make a presentation on the topics.

Other groups: oral check

Who was he?

He was great at public speaking. He was a pastor. He led the Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. He led the March on Washington in 1963. He was assassinated in 1968. He was a great leader of civil rights movement in USA.

Schema Building

What do you know about the life of African Americans in U.S.?

-How did they come to U.S.?

-What about their life before the Civil War?

-After Civil War and before 1960s?

-After 1960s?

Forced to be slaves

Slave life

Separate but equal

Enjoy freedom and equality

The Life of African Americans in U.S.

What do the following pictures tell us?

Text Comprehension

Group 1 Introduction

Group 2 Para.1

Group 3 Para.2

Group 4 Para.3

Group 5 Para.4

Group 6 Para.5

Group 7 Para.6

Group 8 Para.7+8

Group 9 Para.9+10

historical background of civil rights movementgeneral statement of Dr. King

Brown vs. Board of Education

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Protest in Birmingham

March on Washington

Signing of Civil Rights ActReviewing Dr. King: comments and quotes

Epilogue: assassination and Martin Luther King Day

Text Structure

Prelude

Main Part

Head: general statement

Body: achievements (details)

Tail: review--comments and quotes

epilogue

Introduction

P. 1

P.2-6

P.7-8

P.9-10

In-depth Reading

Brown vs. Board of Education

Student presentation: case description

Video Watching:

1) the experiment

2) District Court

3) Supreme CourtMovie to watch: Separate but Equal

Read and ask questions.

Case Description:

When: when did this happen?

Who: who were involved in the case?

Why: Why did this happen? Why were the black and white go to segregated schools?

How: the procedure of the lawsuit--the district court, the supreme court

What: What was the result?

Each state should provide equal protection under the law to all people within its jurisdiction ( 管辖范围 ).

14th Amendment

Any person born in the United States of America is a legal citizens no matter what race or religion they are.

Cultural Tip

Montgomery Bus Boycott

Student Presentation: Rosa Parks

Video Watching: Montgomery Bus Boycott

1) Rosa Parks arrested

2) call for bus boycott

3) speech

Read the text and ask questions.

“I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.” ~ Rosa Parks

On Thursday, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a city bus and sat with three other blacks in the fifth row, the first row that blacks could occupy. A few stops later, the front four rows were filled with whites, and one white man was left standing. According to law, blacks and whites could not occupy the same row, so the bus driver asked all four of the blacks seated in the fifth row to move. Three complied, but Parks refused. She was arrested.

Protest in Birmingham

1) What was the goal of the protest in Birmingham?

2) Why was King put in jail?

3) How was he criticized by the city’s white religious leaders?

4) How did he respond in the Letters from a Birmingham Jail?

Critical Thinking

The “Letters from a Birmingham Jail” include some famous statements like:

1) Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

2) Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

Do you agree with the statements? Why or why not?

March on Washington

Read Par. 5 and determine whether the following statements are true or false.

1)March on Washington is the largest civil rights demonstration in the U.S. history.

2)Half a million civilians staged the march.

3)Only blacks participated in the march.

4)One goal of the demonstration is to put pressure on lawmakers to vote for the civil rights laws.

5)Democrats are more sympathetic with their civil rights movement.

I have a Dream

Students take turns to read “I have a Dream” part by part.

Watch the video: I have a Dream

Cultural Points

Ralph David Abernathy, Sr. (1926 –1990) was a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, a minister, and a close associate of Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Following King's assassination, Dr. Abernathy took up the leadership of the SCLC.

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an American civil rights organization. SCLC was closely associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The SCLC had a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

1. Who signed this Act into law? A. President John. F. Kennedy B. President Lyndon Johnson2. When was the Act signed?

A. March 1964 B. July 1964

3. What is this Act about? A. prohibit discrimination in public places B. prohibit segregating blacks and whites in

all public facilities

C. prohibit discriminating in hiring practices, working conditions and wages.

Why was Dr. King awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize for peace?

He has shown the Western world that a struggle can be waged without violence.

Nobel Prize for Peace

“The movement does not seek to liberate Negroes at the _________ of, the ______________ of, nor the ____________ of whites. It seeks no ________ over anyone. It seeks to ___________ American society and to share in the ___________ of all the people.”

Appreciate Dr. King’s Nobel Lecture

expense embarrassmentenslavement

victory liberateself-liberation

Question Time

What does the following sentence mean?

“Actually, time itself is neutral. Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability…and without hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces that would have society remain without needed change.”

Focus on Vocabulary (1): Quiz

1) Which president signed the Emancipation Proclamation to abolish the slavery in the United State?

2) What was the bloodiest war in US history? How many people were killed?

3) Name one treaty in Chinese history.4) What did the plantations grow in the U.S.?5) How many justices are there in the Supreme Court?6) What is Fourteenth Amendment?7) Which two houses are in the U.S. Congress?8) Two parties in U.S.: Republicans and…?9) What is the campaigning slogan of Obama?

Focus on Vocabulary (2): Use the words

circulate deputyciviliansinvasionwitnessvote

bribe

reverse

arrest

propose

regulate

Variation 1: Use each word to make a sentence, one word at a time.

Variation 2: Chain story. Each one uses a word and together make it into a logical story.

Focus on Vocabulary (3): expressions

Neither jailing nor beating nor bribing could change his _____ of action.

On that day, King gave his _____ speech to tell the world of his faith in the brotherhood of man.

Later that year, King was ____ the 1964 Nobel Prize for peace.

In 1983 Congress set ____ the third Monday in January to honor King’s birthday.

“We can no longer ____ our cooperation to an evil system.”

Course, glorious, awarded, aside, lend

In November 1956 the United States Supreme Court _____ an arrow into the heart of racial discrimination…

The Montgomery bus boycott ______ King as a hero for the nation’s black community.

His courage and public speaking abilities had _____ him the most respected leader of the civil rights movement.

He organized protests and traveled and lectured _____ and was arrested more than fifteen times.

shot, established, made, widely

Focus on form: particles

1)The civil rights movement bloomed ____the leadership of Martin Luther King.

2)Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to yield her seat on a bus ___ a white passenger.

3)The Supreme Court declared that the Alabama laws did not accord ____ the Constitution.

4)The Montgomery bus boycott established King ____ a hero for the nation’s black community.

5)He led a mass protest in Birmingham to appeal ____fair hiring practices and an end to segregation.

6)The movement does not seek to liberate Negroes ____ the expense of the whites. …It seeks no victory ____ anyone.

1) under 2) to 3) with 4) as 5) for 6) at, over

Summary of Dr. King’s life

Martin Luther King, the American ______ ______ leader and ______ of the Nobel Prize for Peace, was ______ in Atlanta, Georgia. He ______ to prominence in the civil rights movement of the 1950s, _____ the famous March on Washington in 1963. A _______ orator and writer, whose insistence upon ________ in the Gandhian tradition accounted for the success of the movement, Dr. King was ___________ on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, by a white man.

civil rights, winner, born, rose, led, brilliant, nonviolence, assassinated

Recommended videos and movies:

Separate but Equal

Boycott

Robert Kennedy’s eulogy on King

After-Class Tasks

Extra readings:

Martin Luther King Day

Writing Task:

1)Focus on meaning: write about a celebrity you like: general statements+ achievements +comments (non-graded; writing-exchange)

2) Focus on form: p189 (graded)

I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

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I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

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I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

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I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor's lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.

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I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

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This is our hope. This is the faith with which I return to the South. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

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This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring.”

And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

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Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!

But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!

Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

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