Summer Learning Journey 2019-2020 • Week 2 • Day 2 - Activity 3

Hi everyone! Welcome back to another post, as you can see from the title, I am doing another activity for the Summer Learning Journey. Enjoy!

Activity 3: "I HAVE A DREAM"

Martin Luther King Jr was a Christian minister in the United States of America (USA) in the 1950s and 1960s. He spent much of his life fighting for equality (equal rights) for people of colour. At the time, there were laws that kept black and white people separated - they went to different parts of a bus and ate in different areas of a restaurant. This was called 'segregation.'

Dr King did not agree with these laws and he led many protests against them. He was joined in his protests by many people, including an African American woman named Rosa Parks. In 1955m Rosa boarded a bus in Alabama (USA) and when the bus filled up with people, he refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. You can read about this famous incident here and watch a video about Rosa Parks here.

The brave actions of people like Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks were instrumental in changing the way that African American (people of colour) were treated in the United States.

For this activity, we had to consider the problem that black men and women faced in America at this time. With that, we had to describe the problem, what Rosa Parks do about the problem an how the other people reacted to what she did.

What is inferring?

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today I will be doing a post about inferring, what it is and what it is used for. Inferring means reading between the lines, some of you probably have heard this while in primary but didn't know what it is.

Reading between lines is when the author intends to give out some kind of information but that information so you have to look for information in that text along with you're own knowledge. I think that in fictional stories it is easier to infer information rather than non-fictional stories because in non-fictional stories it is stating real information.

A way to infer information is by writing down some literal information, meaning information that is 'right there'. Then you can infer something from that information.

Ex.

From the inferred part it says she was nervous this is because her mouth was dry and she had a big knot in her stomach. In my opinion, I would class that as being nervous, because sometimes when I get nervous my mouth goes dry.