Finish the Close Reading Questions that you did not turn in (The Drawing & The Summary). Also, add three more statements that you agree with from the speech and one more question and one more surprise on your chart.
: The Other America. Today, we will do tedious work of discussing; thinking; translating; researching, drawing; reflecting and interpreting a part of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech.
Discuss: Why do you think Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, begins with, "there are several things that one could talk about before such a large, concerned, and enlightened audience."
1. Define Enlightened. Why do you think King calls his audience enlightened? Does he mean it or is he being ironic?
2. Use the paper given you at the beginning of class to draw images of the "Two Americas" as depicted by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
3. Talk & Write: When King says, "little children in the other America are forced to grow up with clouds of inferiority forming everyday in their little mental skies" he is using a metaphor. Why does he compare a cloud to inferiority?
4. What other ethnic or racial groups does King address who also live in the "Other America"?
5. Discuss: Why do you think King also includes Appalachian or Poor Whites in his speech?
6. Summarize: Who are poor whites? where do they normally/historically live?
7. Interpret and Reflect: King says that African-Americans live in a "triple ghetto". Do you think your race, or ethnic group lives in a multitudinous ghetto? Name them.
8. Discuss: Do you think the struggle today is much more difficult than the struggle yesterday?
9. Dr. King says that some people who came to march quickly in Selma and Birmingham did not do so in Chicago, which is a large urban midwest city. Why do you think this is the case?
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