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Title: The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963 Christopher Paul Curtis


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The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963Christopher
Paul Curtis
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963 Introduction
  • Kenny knows why his family is
  • called The Weird Watsons.
  • But Kenny has his own
  • problems

3
The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963 Introduction
  • - His friend stole his toys.

- His older brother, Byron, is mean to him. -
He thinks his lazy eye makes him look funny.
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963 PLOT
  • One day Kennys family decides to take a
    cross-country trip from Michigan to Alabama.

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963 PLOT
  • Kennys parents have decided that Byron needs to
    spend a summer in Birmingham with his
    grandmother, wholl teach him how to behave.


Kenny thinks this sounds too good to be true.
Will one of his problems really go away?
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963 CONFLICT
  • But in Birmingham, Kennys problems collide with
    Americas problems.

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963 CONFLICT
  • On Sunday, September 15, 1963, at 1022 A.M., a
    bomb exploded in the Sixteenth Street Baptist
    Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

Four African American girls were killed.
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963 Resolution
  • Kenny matures
  • He learns about the world
  • He gets a real, big brother

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963 PROJECT
  • ABCs of The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963
  • Your project will illustrate how well you not
    only
  • remember the events of the story, but how well
    you
  • understand the literary elements we learned.
  • Your project may be completed by
  • Using a presentation software (PowerPoint,
    Keynote, etc.)
  • Journal Notebook

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The Watsons Go to Birmingham1963 Project
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  • Essential to learning comprehension
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  • Words, Phrases Names can be used ONLY ONE TIME
  • Minimum of 10 images must be used
  • Images may be literal or symbolic.
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