Unit Three

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Unit Three

• Civil-Rights Heroes

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Teaching Objectives

• Students will be able to
• Get to know the early civil-rights in the US,
  esp. the Underground Railroad
• Learn to use library resources and other
  resources for information
• Grasp the use of direct speech
• Master the key language points and grammatical
  structures in the text

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The Map of U.S.A.
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Background InformationSlavery

• Black Americans were first brought as
  slaves to what was to become the U. S. in the
  17th century. Slavery was strongest in the South,
  where large plantations grow cotton, tobacco, and
  other crops. Towards the end of the 18th century,
  a growing demand for cotton led to an increase in
  the demand for slaves.

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Background InformationSlavery

• Slavery was less profitable in the North,
  however, and much of the opposition to slavery
  came from the northern states. The tension
  between the North and the South over the issue of
  slavery led to the Civil War in 1861.

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Civil Rights Movement

• With the victory of the North, slavery was
  abolished. Discrimination, however, did not end.
  Black Americans were treated as second class
  citizens, especially in the South.
  Dissatisfaction with unfair treatment eventually
  led to the Civil Rights Movement.

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Civil Rights Movement

• In 1963 a march to Washington was led by
  Martin Luther King, who gave a speech in front of
  the Lincoln Memorial I Have a Dream.

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Civil Rights Movement

• The movement succeed in causing the
  introduction of government actions. 1) The
  Civil Rights Act of 1964 the law forced the
  southern states to allow black people to enter
  restaurants, hotels, etc, which had been reserved
  for white people only and to end the practice of
  having separate areas for black and white in
  public places. 2) The Voting Rights Act of 1965

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Pre-reading

• The three important figures in the Movement (P38)
  
• ? Abraham Lincoln(the 16the American President)
• Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it
  not for themselves.

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• John F. Kennedy (the 35th American President)
• My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what
  America will do for you, but what together we can
  do for the freedom of man.

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• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Freedom is never voluntarily given by the
  oppressor it must be demanded by the oppressed.

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Text Organization
Parts Paragraphs Main Ideas
I 1-5 It is high time to honor the heroes who helped liberate slaves through the Underground Railroad
II 6-23 By citing examples the author praises the exploits of civil-rights heroes.
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The Three Freedom Givers

• The reasons to choose them and their respective
  motivations
• ?Josiah Henson were motivated by their
• ?John Parker own painful experiences
• ?Levi Coffin was driven by religious
  convictions

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Group Work

• You are given the chance to invite three great
  people to dinner.
• Who will be invited?
• Why do you choose them?
• What will you talk to them?