March

Lesson 1:
Graphic Novel: Expectations
1. What do you think a graphic novel is?
- I think a graphic novel is a comic book but with more literature than a normal
comic book.
2. Have you ever read a graphic novel?
- I have never read a graphc novel.
3. Do you think reading a graphic novel is more or less difficult than reading a ‘normal’
book?
- I think that a graphic novel is less difficult to read than reading a ‘normal book’
because agraphic novel has sketches.
4. Do you think a graphic novel is ‘literary’ enough to be discussed in school?
- I think that a graphic novel is ‘literary’ enough to be discussed in school because
it’s an important subject and the

Literature:
1. Literature is written works with important literary. Examples of literature are poetry,
drama and fiction.
2. Comic books can be considered as literature because there is a mix of creative story
telling with serious subjects.
3. A plublisher is someone who prepares books for sale..
4. The publication is a ode to the succes of marvel and the impact the Graphic fiction
has.
5. Because the influenced a lot of people.
6. No, I still think it’s literary enough because it’s a creative way of telling a story.

Graphic novel; Termonology

1. How does the video describe gaphic novels?

- It tells a story by using a book format.
2. What does the video say about the genre of graphic novels?
- The video tells that graphic novels aren’t a genre on their own.
 3. The video describes elements of a graphic novel. Connect the following terms (a-e) to
the red numbers (1-5)
- A-3
- B-1
- C-5
- D-2
- E-4
4. Describe the difference between speech bubbles een thought bubbles.
- Speech bubbles shows what someone is saying en thought bubbles shows what
someone is thinking.
5. The bottom page takes the most attention because it’s darker.

Lesson 2:

jim crow

1. who was jim crow?

a. An enslaved man who sued for his freedom and whose case reached the
Supreme Court.
b. An African American man from Mississippi who attempted to desegregate rail cars
in a famous 1896 Supreme Court case.
c. A fictional stock character who often appeared in comical theatre
productions known as minstrel shows.
The answer is c.

2. Is Jim Crow a positive or a negative symbol for African American citizens?

- Jim crow is a negative symbol for African American citizens because the character
Jim Crow served as a nickname for the racial laws in the United States, the so-
called Jim Crow laws. The laws were designed to keep black Americans separate
from white Americans
3. Find three examples of Jim Crow laws.
- African Americans weren’t allowed to be at certain places.
- There were seperate facilities for African Americans and blanc Americans. There
were seperate toilets, schools and seperate drinking fountains.
- African Americans had to do a lot more if they wanted to vote such as knowing the
American Declaration of Independence.
4. Which of the examples you mentioned is, in your opinion, the most isolating?
- I think the most isolating example is not be able to vote because if you can’t vote
you don’t have a say in what has to change.
Rosa Parks:

1. Rosa Parks was born in Alabama on February 4 in 1913. Parks was an American
activist in the civil rights movement. In 1955 she refused to sit in the back of the bus.
In that time the busses had in the back a reserved place for black people. She got
arrested when she refused to move seats. Her boycott inspired other people to also
boycott the rules. When Martin Luther king came to now about the boycott’s he
started the Montgomery-busboycot. In the end she won the lawsuit. Rosa parks
became international well known and collaborated with other civil rights leaders such
as Martin Luther King. She died on October 24 in 2005, at the age of 92.
2. I agree with the statement because I think that because of her actions she inspired a lot
of people to also stand up for their rights.

The 1963 Birmingham Childeren’s March:

1. The words segregation means that you get separated because of your race.
2. The reason for the children’s march was to protest against racial segregation.
3. The children did the march because when the parents did it they could lose their job.
4. The consequences were that the police used police dogs and high-pressure fire hoses
on the children. They also arrested a lot of children.
5. B:
Hi mom and dad,

I’m going participate in the Children’s March. I want to participate in the March
because I think that the march will help getting us to our goal: to improve the African
Americans lives. I know it can be dangerous and that there will be a lot of risks such
as getting arrested or getting hurt, but I really want to take the risk. Im glad that I can
participate in the March and that you don’t have to do it. When I will walk the March
it will prevent you from risking losing your jobs or even getting in jail. I hope you
understand that I will go and do the March, because I do this for all of us. I hope that
we finally can have the same rights as everyone else. Don’t worry about me I try to
keep myself safe.

Xx love,

Your child.

Lesson 3:
1. It says that John probably wasn’t listening or daydreaming.
2. The Edmund Pettus bridge is a bridge named after general Edmund Wintson Pettus.
The bridge is build in 1940 and goes over the Alabama river.
 3. The atmosphere created by the artist is intimidating. He does that by showing wapens
and scary dogs and by making the speech balloons pointier.
4. The artist used different speech balloons so the reader can see the difference between
what’s being said normal and what’s being yelled.
5. “Your Mach is not helpful for the safety of citizens. You are ordered to spread and go
back to your church of to your homes.”

6. By letting the two balloons overlap the Artis implies that one person is interrupted by
someone else.

7. It’s written is smaller font because it’s said by someone in the background.
8. What happened is that there is a conversation between the people who are protesting
and the police. The police immediately is treathening to use violence if they don’t stop
the protest.
9. On the date 20 January 2009 Obama was elected as president of the United States of
America.
10. John Lewis is waking up by the radio. When he goes to his living room and puts on
the tv he sees that Barrack Obama is the new president of the United States of
America.
11. The cannon house office building is in Washington DC. It’s one of the oldest
confession office of the United States of America. In the background is
12. On August 28 in 1963 Martin Luther King gave a speech during the civil rights
demonstration. He spoke in the speech the famous words: “I have a dream.”
13. You can see it because the panel stands out.
14. A sharecropper is when families rent a land from the owner but they have to give the
owner in return a part of their harvest.
15. Because in the catalog was wat he so badly wanted.
16. The author choose to change the font so the reader knows when he is talking about the
past or in the present.
17. - Congregation is a group of people who pray together and come together in a
religious building.
- persecuted is that your treated unfair because of your religion or race.
-righteousness is that you do things right. Righteous people follow the rules of their
religion.
- A preacher is someone who explains about the faith.
18. The danger is that making pets out of farm is that you get emotional attached to them.
19. -Eulogy is a speech given at a funeral
-Baptism is immersing someone in the water to symbolise admission to the Christian
church.
20. The author creates a scary atmosphere by show a big axe and making the face of the
dad creepy.

Lesson 4:

21. I think that making waves means that you are changing a situation.
22. I think the artist introduces Otis Carter as someone who is doing everything he can do
the future of John Lewis.
23. There were no restaurants to stop because black people weren’t welcome.
24. John looks very surprised in a good way.
25. The artist captures it by showing John running to school.
26. The artist captures this feeling by showing Lewis pleading his mom
27. The father of John wouldn’t whip him over sneaking out to go to school because he
knows that John would go to school anyways.

28. Desegregation is that separation ends

29. Separate but equal
30. Doctrine is and unconstitutional is

31. In the final panel you see someone grieving.

32. A boycott is to refuse to participate in something as a way of protesting.

Lesson 5:

33. The emotion John shows in the final panel is sad and guilty.
34. Neither of them said anything because his dad wasn’t happy with his choice to not stay
and help.
35. The artist choose this reaction because John didn’t know that his parents needed to
file a suit.
36. Diane nash and Jim Lawson were both active in the Civil Rights Movement.
37. Represented is reconciliation is pacifist is
38. They held another non-violence workshop with ministers and students.
39. There first target as protest were the department store lunch counters.
40. The artist makes the transition by putting a date above the panel.
41. The counter is closed but they stay there and don’t leave.

Lesson 6:
 42. It felt like New Year’s Eve because everyone was happy.
43. The facial expressions were mad and motivated.
44. There was a fight downstairs by the counters because they didn’t like that there were
African Americans. The people from upstairs came to help and a massive fight broke
out. Later the police came and arrested them.
45. The judge looks mad and ignorant.
46. The people mentioned are people who supported them for going to jail.
47. The artist changes from time by making panels darker than the others,
48. Mayor west looks sad and tired.
49. In the last panel everyone is applauding.
50. In the last panels you see Martin Luther King holding a speech and African Americans
being happy that there is no more segregation.

Lesson 7;

Discussion questions:

7. At the end of the book segregation is

5. I think non-violent protest is effective because by showing no violence people will
take you more seriously.
6. I think that the details of John Lewis’ early life, foreshadow later events because in his
youth you saw that he did what he thought was good and right, like that chickens also
deserve a good live. When he got older he protested for African Americans to have the
samen rights.

Good trouble:
1. The goal of the sit in was that they wanted to dramatize to colleagues in the congress
that there needs to be done something about gun violence
2. Getting in trouble means that you did something wrong and that you get problems for
that.
3. He answers the question by saying that the Graphic Novel that young children,
students and adults all should know about what happened and how it happened.
4. He is relevant in this story because he protested against racial inequality by kneeling
down when the National American anthem started . I think he got into good trouble
because he didn’t got a team anymore but he did influence other players to also
protest.
5. Similarities are that he is proud of what he did in 1963. Different is that in the video
you see him more talking about future plans.
 Lesson 8:

Rewrite the story:

From Page 49
When I went to school everything changed, it felt like I had a mission to complete. I loved
going to the library and read about people who I fancied. Basically going to school was
something I didn’t know i needed until I went. Sadly my family couldn’t afford me going to
school and even if they could they rather have me staying at home so I could help on planting
the harvest. My father told me that I couldn’t go to school anymore. But I went anyways.
When I heard de approaching bus i would quickly run to the bus. My parents luckily didn’t
notice that I was gone for the first few days that I sneaked out but when they did I knew I was
in big trouble. My dad stormed my bedroom in and took me by the arm, he slurred me
downstairs. He was so mad he was screaming telling me how I couldn’t just leave and that I
should be helping at home. For a while we didn’t talk to each other he was very disappointed
in me but i still disagreed that i couldn’t go to school. In the end we forgave each other and
after a time my dad let me go to school again.

Lesson 9:

All you need is love:

1. I think loving your enemy means that you always act nice and non-violent to your
enemy even though you don’t like the other or don’t agree with the other.
2. I think that it’s hard to treat attackers with love for John because their enemy’s are the
cause of the segregation.
3. This quote relate to the principles of non-violence because even though you don’t like
your enemy you won’t hurt them because that will get nobody anywhere.
4. Because the people of the civil rights movement wanted to show that they didn’t need
violence to get what they wanted and that the opposite did use violence to non-violent
people.
 Lesson 10:

Reflection:
1. What went well during this project was that I did the project on my own. I started
quickly with the project.
2. I am most proud of my written tekst
3. This went wel, because I liked the subject and you were free to write whatever you
want.
4. What didn’t go well was that I lost the document with Lesson 3-6 and I had to do it
over. I also found the time management hard.
5. I think that it didn’t go well because of the lost document and that I
6. What I definitely will do better the next time is saving my documents because I lost a
lot of time by having to do it over. And I should make a schedule the next time.
7. Im not really sure how my teacher can help me with this.
Evaluation:
1. I didn’t enjoy this reader, the reason for this is that I rather have one bigger assignment
about for example a book then all those smaller ones in one.
2. My expectations were that it would be fun because it sounded like an interesting
subject. These expectations were met because the subject was interesting. But on the
other hand I think that because of all the question you had to answer you were more
scanning the text for answers than really reading the story.
3. What I liked the most about this literature module was reading March. If you ask me i
would change the assignment where you use more of the book and less of other small
assignments.
4. What I liked the least was all those questions because there were so many and I think
that a lot of them weren’t relevant or to hard to understand.
5. I’m satisfied with the amount of guidance my teacher gave me.