The Lecture Notes of SEFC Book2 Unit14 Freedom Fighters

decide which of the following sentences are true.
1. martin luther king, jr. was born in 1865.
2. black people refused to take buses for more than 18 months.
3. black girls could not marry white boys.
4. king spent some time in prison.
5. martin luther king, jr. died of cancer in washington. discuss the sentences with the whole class as following:t: look at the first sentence, please. is it true?
s: i think it is wrong, because martin luther king, jr. was born in 1929.
t: how about the second sentence?
s: it’s wrong, because black people refused to take buses for 381 days and that is less than 13 months.
t: very good. now, who can tell us which of these sentences are correct?
s: i think the third sentence and the fourth sentence are correct.
t: do you agree with him/her?
ss: yes, we do.
t: ok. now, look at the last sentence. who’d like to have a try?
s: i’d like to. this sentence is wrong, because he was murdered in 1968 in a hotel in memphis tennessee.
t: how do you know this? the text doesn’t tell us where he was murdered.
s: i learnt this from the internet. last night i turned on my computer and got a lot of information about him.
t: that’s a good way to get some detailed information. keep on doing that, you’ll know a lot that you can’t learn from our textbooks.
step4  reading and understandingt: now, read the text again and discuss the questions on the screen with your partner.
(show the following on the screen.)
discuss the following:
1, what was the situation for the blacks in the southern states at that time?
2. explain in your own words what the first paragraph is about.
3. martin luther king, jr. fought for the civil rights of black people in america. which civil rights did he want black people to get?
4. king believed that he could reach his goal through peaceful actions, not through violence. give examples of such peaceful actions.
(students practise for a few minutes and the teacher may join in their discussion and help them. finally ask some students to answer the questions one by one.)
suggested answers:
1. blacks were not treated equally. the south had its own laws to continue the separation of blacks and whites. mixed-race marriages were forbidden by law. there were separate sections for blacks in public places. blacks were not allowed to get into hotels, schools or libraries. black children were educated in separate schools. black people had no right to vote.
2. it tells us that thousands of black people marched on washington d.c., the capital of the usa in the summer of 1963,when martin luther king, jr. spoke to them at a meeting. his speech—“i have a dream”—spoke out the minds of the black people. inspired by his speech, people continued to struggle and succeeded in the end. soon he and his speech became known to the people all over the world.