1. Summarize what the poem is about in your own words.
2. What is a central idea in the poem?
3. What literary elements/techniques can you identify?
4. What connections can you make between "Letter from..." by MLK and this poem?
Definitions to go into your booklet:
extremist (p.12)-n. a person who holds extreme or fanatical political or religious views, especially one who resorts to or advocates extreme action.
immorality (p.13)-n. the state or quality of being immoral; wickedness.
quantity (p.13)-n. amount
moderate (p.13)-adj. within reasonable or proper limits; not extreme, excessive, or intense:
Today we will read/listen to from:
the bottom of p. 7 "Sometimes a law is just on its face..."
to the top of p.12 "And now this approach is being termed extremist"
Youtube link (again)
Please annotate as you read:
? next to things you don't understand
circle/box unknown vocab words
Underline things you want to come back to
! next to things you think are important
Friday:
Youtube video
Questions for the video:
1.
What valuable lesson did Martin Luther King, Jr. learn from Mahatma Gandhi? Do
you believe Mahatma Gandhi was correct? Why or why not?
2.
What did King say about the importance of his personal life when the reporter
asked him if King was scared about his personal safety?
3.
Why did King and his associates decide to focus their attention on Birmingham,
Alabama as opposed to a different city?
4.
What did King mean by the term “noncooperation with evil”?
5.
What did King mean when he said, “It’s nonviolence or it’s nonexistence”? What
do you think he meant when he said “[nonviolence] is a sword that heals”?
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