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Introduction Pages 2–4

Chapters 1–4 Pages 5–6





Chapters 17–18 and Epilogue Pages 15–16

The Exchange

Assessment

Warriors Don’t Cryby Melba Pattillo Beals

How can the

media unite or

divide us?

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Warriors Don’t Cry

Getting Started

What If?Your school’s all-male football team is the state’s championship team. A talented female athlete tries out and then is asked to join the team. Parents call to complain. They claim she will ruin the team. The team refuses to play if she is allowed to join. The coach tells the female athlete he is sorry, but allowing her to play will create too many problems.

The girls in the school find out that the coach will not let a girl play on the team. Now the girls are upset. A group of girls alert the media about what has happened. Reporters print the story in all the newspapers. Soon, it seems like everyone in the town is arguing about this issue.

Make notes about how this would affect you.

• Were the girls right to contact the media?

• How could the media coverage affect their daily lives?

• What should the media’s role be in this situation?

Connect to The Exchange Question Discuss how this situation could relate to The Exchange Question: How can the media unite or divide us? Summarize your discussion.



Introduction

Read the Introduction on pages 11–13 in Warriors Don’t Cry. The Introduction will help you understand key concepts in the book. Knowing them will help you discuss and write about the book.

The Introduction includes information about

• segregation in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s

• the historic Supreme Court case, Brown v. The Board of Education

• the history of the civil rights movement

• how segregation affected the author

After you read the Introduction, answer these questions to check your understanding.

1. What was living in the United States like for African Americans during the 1950s?

2. What effect did Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., have on the civil rights movement?

3. Why did the author write Warriors Don’t Cry?



Introduction: Key Concepts

Word Web

Study the Word Web for segregated. What words does segregated make you think of? Write a sentence using the word segregated.

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Key Concepts

dignityhatredintegrateprotestsegregated

On a separate sheet of paper, create a similar Word Web for each of the Key Concept words. Write a sentence for each one.

Word Web

prejudice separate

unequal inferior

Key Conceptsegregated



Respond to Chapters 1–41. Personal Response Melba Pattillo Beals wrote that some people

called her a hero for participating in the integration of Central High School. Do you agree that Melba is a hero? Why or why not?

2. Reasoning What were Melba’s reasons for volunteering to integrate Central High School? Use the word integrate in your response.

3. Evaluating Sources Is the author’s account of what happened during the battle for school integration accurate and credible? How do you know?

4. Generate Questions Write a question about this section for someone else reading this book. Exchange questions with them. Do you agree with their answer?



Respond to Chapters 1–4, continued

5. Inference In Chapters 1–4, Melba and the other students began the integration process. Write the events that happened as they tried to integrate. Then write the outcome.

Goal and Outcome Chart

How might the events and outcome have been different if the governor had supported integration?

Outcome

to attend their first day at

Central High School

Goal Events



Respond to Chapters 5–71. Personal Response Melba felt freedom had been taken from her.

She wrote in her diary that freedom was not integration. Freedom was being able to go to the wrestling matches. What is freedom to you?

2. Conclusions Why didn’t Governor Faubus go to the court hearing, even though he had been ordered to appear? Use the word protest in your response.

3. Fact and Opinion After her first day at Central High, Melba said that integration could be possible if there was no interference from outside forces. Was this a fact or an opinion? Explain.





5. Argument In Chapters 5–7, Governor Faubus and the federal court continued to disagree about integration. Write what each group did and said. Use the T Chart to answer the question.

Restate the federal court’s actions and concerns. Do you feel that Faubus’s argument was fair and reasonable? Why or why not?

T Chart

Governor Faubus The Federal Court



Respond to Chapters 8–101. Personal Response Melba was grateful to have Danny’s protection.

He made her feel “specially cared about.” Describe a time when you felt grateful for someone. How did they make you feel?

2. Cause and Effect Why did the black students and the white students who supported integration have to act as if the hatred did not affect them? Use the word hatred in your response.

3. Author’s Point of View Melba wrote that if reporters had not been covering the story of the integration, the black students might have been hanged. What did she mean? Why did she feel that way?





5. Opinion In Chapters 8–10, the attacks on Melba and the other students during the integration became more dangerous. Write details or events that support the main idea below.

Do you think the presence of the 101st Airborne Division kept Melba and the other African American students safe? Why or why not?

Main Idea Diagram

Main Idea: The attacks at Central High School became more dangerous.

Details:

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Respond to Chapters 11–131. Personal Response A public meeting was held, at which students

could safely speak their minds about the integration. If you had a chance to speak at the meeting, what would you say?

2. Irony Melba always thought of her sixteenth birthday as the beginning of freedom. What about Melba’s life made this ironic? Use the word integrate in your response.

3. Inference At Thanksgiving, Melba said they were eating an integrated turkey when asked if she wanted white meat or dark meat. Why did Mother Lois say she would live to regret that statement?





5. Irony Melba felt both support and rejection from the African American community during the integration process. In the T Chart, list how the community reacted to what she was experiencing.

What was ironic about the rejection Melba felt from the African American community?

T Chart

Support Rejection



Respond to Chapters 14–161. Personal Response Melba was shocked when she read past diary

entries and saw how much she had changed. Tell about a time that changed you.

2. Paraphrase On page 194, Grandma India told Melba that “dignity is a state of mind, just like freedom.” What did she mean by this? Do you agree or disagree? Use the word dignity in your response.

3. Inference Why were Grandma India and Mother Lois afraid when Melba drove Link’s car home? Why did they cover the car to hide it from the police?





5. Making Decisions Link helped Melba avoid her attackers. Write what you know about Link in the circles below. Use the Details Web to answer the question.

Details Web

If you were Melba, would you have trusted Link? Why or why not?

Link



Respond to Chapters 17–18 and Epilogue1. Personal Response The black community resented the black

students’ role in the integration. How would this have made you feel if you were one of the black students?

2. Author’s Point of View The author wrote, “The effort to separate ourselves . . . is as costly to the separator as to those who would be separated.” What did she mean? Use the word segregated in your response.

3. Theme Mother Lois thought she could win back her teaching position if the story was reported in the white newspapers. What does this say about the media’s influence?

What If?4. Connect Look at your notes on Student Journal, page 2. Think about what might

happen if the media was interested in an issue in your community. Compare this to Warriors Don’t Cry. How did the media bring people together and keep them apart?

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Respond to Chapters 17–18 and Epilogue, continued

5. Problem and Solution The integration controversy battled on for years until Governor Faubus closed Little Rock schools. Write the events that followed the closing and the solution to this problem.

Both sides of the integration battle did everything in their power to win. Which side was ultimately victorious? Why?

Problem:

Faubus closed Little Rock schools.

Event 1:

Event 2:

Solution:

Problem and Solution Chart

Event 3:

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