Homework and Class Work for
ENG IIA
2nd Pd: Mikey Davis
4th Pd: Amy Sabon
Thursday, September 5, 2013
5th Pd: Jalen Mills
Independent Work :
Complete the last section of Vocabulary Ch. 3 packet. (Sentence Check Two). Check your answers with another student
or with the Vocabulary Chapter 3 PPT on the teacher page.
Classwork:
1. Look at the photo by Will Counts. Complete the photo analysis regarding the photo.
2. The class discussed the questions we had regarding the picture and what we already know about the Civil Rights
Movement. We made a list of questions we have about these two things.
3. The photo by Will Counts is of Elizabeth Eckford as she tried to enter Little Rock Central High School in Little
Rock, Arkansas on September 4, 1957. It introduces the subject matter for this unit: the Civil Rights movement
of the 1950s and 1960s and, in particular, school desegregation. Analyzing the photo also introduces questions
the unit will focus on: in what sense are all documents – photographs, autobiographies, and other kinds of
nonfiction – persuasive? In what sense are nonfiction texts such as photographs “true”?
Learning to read and interpret photographs and other images is important. It is important for you to see that, even
though a photograph is “real” or “true,” it also reflects a particular perspective on events and therefore seeks to
persuade viewers to a particular point of view. Every photograph is also a snapshot of a single moment in time;
therefore, the story it tells is incomplete.
This image is one of the most famous images from the civil rights movement. This image and others that
appeared in newspapers and on tv of the events that were occurring in Little Rock and other parts of the country
were important in trying to persuade people to take the rights of African American seriously.
How do you think Elizabeth Eckford’s experience might have affected her identity?
4. Look at the second photograph of a sit-in at Woolworth’s lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi and complete the
2nd photo analysis to be turned in for a grade.
In drugstores there used to be counters where people could have a drink or a sandwich; in some parts of the
country, these were open only to whites. Just sitting at one of these counters, as the college students are doing in
this photograph, was dangerous for an African American. The African American woman in this photo is Anne
Moody, who wrote the book Come of Age in Mississippi.
Please complete this work on your own and turn in for credit.