THIS IS AN ASSIGNMENT THAT HAS NOT YET BEEN ASSIGNED.
Mental Back Pocket!
- You will select 5 topics to research.
- You may not use Wikipedia.
- You will select 1 quote from this individual/topic
- You will find 5 facts (supporting details/elaboration) for each topic.
- You will select topics and facts that are usable for a variety of possible prompts and use only relevant information (MLK wore a size 11 shoe…not relevant information).
For Example (you may not use this):
Martin Luther King, Jr.: “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”
- He was a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race.
- He was a leader of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott.
- He directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream"
- At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.
- On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.
