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About the Author. Alice Walker was born in 1944 in Eatonton, GAHer father was a sharecropper and her mother was a maidShe is best known for her novel The Color Purple. Make the Connection. Tribute-A way of giving honor or paying homageDr. King brought the message of civil rights through non-violent protests to a world television audienceCivil DisobedienceAn ideology adopted from Mohatma Ghandi.
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1. Choice: A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2. About the Author Alice Walker was born in 1944 in Eatonton, GA
Her father was a sharecropper and her mother was a maid
She is best known for her novel The Color Purple
3. Make the Connection Tribute-A way of giving honor or paying homage
Dr. King brought the message of civil rights through non-violent protests to a world television audience
Civil Disobedience
An ideology adopted from Mohatma Ghandi
4. Things to Notice Setting and audience for this speech by Alice Walker
Implied Main idea
Discover it by making inferences
Look at key statements that give clues to the main idea
5. Things to Notice What role did television play in the Civil Rights Movement?
How did seeing Dr. King’s resistance change Alice Walker’s ideas about her own future?
What link does Alice Walker make between the idea of home and the idea of continuity?
6. Definition essay Prewriting