The grade 9 students are embarking on a unit that looks at how the words of a few changed the mindset of a nation. We will be looking at a poem, short story and speech written during a period of history when African Americans were not treated as equals. This week we worked on our summarizing skills with texts written about the lives of two extraordinary women, Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks. You can check them out at biography.com.
http://www.biography.com/people/harriet-tubman-9511430
http://www.biography.com/people/rosa-parks-9433715
