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Aim: What are the new essential questions, and how can we answer them? Get out your notebook. Respond to the following using complete sentences. Give an example of how people have used literacy to fight for their rights. Do Now 2/12. What rights are important to people?
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Aim: What are the new essential questions, and how can we answer them? Get out your notebook. Respond to the following using complete sentences. Give an example of how people have used literacy to fight for their rights. Do Now 2/12
What rights are important to people? How have people used their First Amendment rights to secure and extend these rights? How have people used literacy to secure and extend their rights? Essential questions
Cesar Chavez was an American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist. He helped found the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which helped farm workers gain fair wages and gave them a voice in the country. He even spoke in front of the U.S. Congress, asking them to pay more attention to the unfair conditions farm workers had to endure. The NFWA put out a weekly newspaper that was read by thousands of farm workers and other people, and helped to gain national attention about the need to change farm policies. Practice