FAST BOOT CAMP: The Front of the Bus & Mother to Son

Select two examples from the text that contradict common fallacies about Rosa Parks.

• “I was not old…I was 42.”

• “…I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired.”

• “No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”

• “…described as merely a seamstress who was too tired to move.”

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Part A: What word best describes the tone of this passage.

• Angry

• Frustrated

• Sympathetic

• Aggressive

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Part B: Select a detail from the text to support your answer in Part A?

• “I never thought hard of them at all and never even bothered to criticize them.”

• “No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.”

• “…if I had let myself think too deeply about what might happen to me, I might have gotten off the bus.”

• “…if I had let myself think too deeply about what might happen to me, I might have gotten off the bus.”

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What evidence does the author provide to support the claim that the arrest was not solely based on race?

• “I don’t know, but the law is the law…”

• “…they were the front seats of the black section.”

• “…I could be the test case the NAACP had been looking for.”

• “It was the same driver who had put me off the bus back in 1943…”

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Select two details from the text that show that the mother has faced adversity.

• “And sometimes goin’ in the dark / Where there ain’t been no light.”

• “I’se been a-climbin’ on / And reachin’ landin’s,”

• “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.”

• “So, boy, don’t you turn back. / Don’t you set down on the steps.”

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Read this line from “Mother to Son.”

Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.

What does “crystal stair” represent as it is used in this line?

• . It represents the obstacles the mother has faced.

• It represents the reward for a life of adversity.

• It represents the son’s future.

• It represents a simple, effortless life.

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Which theme is shared by both “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes and “Front of the Bus” by Rosa Parks?

• Adversity makes people stronger

• Don’t give up in the face of conflict.

• Positive results of struggle are not always immediate.

• Fair is not always equal.

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