journal: explain what the term prejudice means to you and how it influences how people act in 3...

• Journal: Explain what the term prejudice means to you and how it influences how people act in 3 lines or more.(If you do not know what prejudice means, look it up!)

• Takeout your notes over Watsons.

Snapshots of a Year: 1963• May 12: President John F. Kennedy sends

troops to Alabama to protect citizens from violence between whites opposing school integration and blacks seeking equal rights.

Snapshots of a Year: 1963

• August 28: Martin Luther King, Jr., gives his “I Have a Dream” speech in front of the Lincoln memorial in Washington D.C.

• November 22: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated during a motorcade parade in Dallas, TX.

Birmingham 1963

• Birmingham became a focus for the Civil Right’s Movement in 1963, Bull Connor (chief of police)

• http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0915.html

Clark Elementary School in Flint, Michigan

Momma’s Trip on Google

• http://goo.gl/maps/PlRzY

About the Author/Novel

• See Worksheet and follow along!

Literary Elements:1. External Conflict

• Conflict that occurs outside the mind of a character.

• Example: Kenny faces external conflict as he struggles with the teasing and tormenting his brother inflict on him.

2. Internal Conflict

• Conflict that occurs inside the mind of a character.

• Example: Kenny faces internal conflict when he struggles with the church bombing and the way it makes him feel.

3. Plot

• Plot PowerPoint

4. Point of View (P.O.V.)

• The narrator’s perspective.• First-Person P.O.V: the narrator is also a

character in the story.– Uses the pronouns I and we– The reader can only see into the mind of the

narrator.

5. Theme

• The main idea• The message• There are several themes in this story.– The Importance of Family– The Power of Prejudice

Can you think of others?

6. Allusion

7. Atmosphere/Mood