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Building stage

11. Complete Rosa Parks’ anecdote below with the main ideas from the box that
follows it.

General meaning. Main ideas One evening in early December 1955, .
• Pay attention to the details provided.

Anecdote

The white people were sitting
in the white section. More white people got on, and they filled up all the seats in the white

section. When that happened,
. But I didn’t move. The white driver said, “Let me have those front seats.”

I was tired of giving in to white people. “
,” the driver said. “You may do that,” I answered. Two white policemen came. I asked

one of them, “Why do you all push us around?” He answered, “I don’t know, but the law is the law
and you’re under arrest.”
session 4 atropellar, maltratar

get up (v.): levantarse,
ponerse de pie
give up (n.): renunciar,
ceder
push around (v.):

Main ideas
I didn’t get up. I was sitting in the front seat of the colored
section of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

“I’m going to have you arrested,” We black people were supposed to give up our
seats to the whites.

• Discuss how you were able to organize the main ideas in the extract.

• Highlight the main ideas in the anecdote you selected.

• Read the complete story in your Reader's Book, pages 55 and 56.
Reader's
Book pages 55-56

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