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Outstanding people

4. Final Activity

3. Fyodor Dostoevsky

2. Simone de Beauoir

1. Rosa Parks

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- Who is this person? - Where is she from? - What did she do?

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Rosa Parks

Rosa Louise McCauley, best known as Rosa Parks, was born on February 4th 1913 and died on October 24th 2005. She was an american activist that fought for the civil rights of black people in the US, in the 1950's. On December 1st 1955, Rosa Parks was coming back home, on a bus, when she was arrested for refusing to give away her seat to a white passenger. Even though bus segregation was considered unconstitutional, Rosa Parks was punished for standing up for what was right, she lost her job and so did her husband. Some time later, she volunteered for candidate John Conyers, who when elected, hired her as his assistant in his Detroit office, a position she held until her retirement.

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Rosa Parks

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- Who is this person? - Where is she from? - What did she do?

Simone de Beauvoir

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Simone Beauvoir was a french philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist.She was born on January 9th, 1908, in Paris, France and was best known for her work The Second Sex (1949). She published countless works of fiction and nonfiction during her career. She also spoke up about endless political causes and traveled the world She died in Paris on April 14th, 1986, at the age of 78.

Simone de Beauvoir

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- Who is this person? - Where is he from? - What did he do?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in 1821, in Moscow, Russia and died in 1881 St. Petersburg, Russia. This Russia novelist was well-known in his country during his life and has been praised around the world as a writer. He is best known for writing novels that had a great understanding of psycology (the study of how the human mind works), specially of people who, losing their reason, would commit murder.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

e. the separation or isolation of a race, class, or ethnic group by enforced or voluntary residence in a restricted area.

d. not in accordance with the political constitution or with procedural rules.

c. seize someone by legal authority and take them into custody

b. the action or fact of leaving one's job and ceasing to work.

a. to express admiration or approval of the achievements or characteristics of a person or thing

4. Praised

5. Retirement

2. Unconstitutional

3. Segregation

1. Arrested

Exercise

Memoirs from the house of the dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

Rosa Parks: My story by Rosa Parks

Book recommendations

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Simone de Beauvoir

Rosa Parks

Final Activity

Who do you think had a bigger impact in the world and why?

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Rosa Parks

BBC article

On a winter's evening in 1955, a 42-year-old African-American woman named Rosa Parks, tired after a long day of work as a seamstress, boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama to get home. Fifty-five years earlier, Montgomery had passed a law to segregate bus passengers by race. As the bus filled up, the bus driver James Blake demanded that she and three other black passengers give up their seats. Rosa Parks alone refused.

I did this because I felt I was being violated as a human being. I had had a hard day at work on the job, [I was] physically tired as well as mentally vexed.Parks was promptly arrested by local police. On 5 December, she was found guilty of violating segregation laws. Following her arrest, a boycott of the city's bus system was organised by the Montgomery Improvement Association, led by a 26-year-old-pastor named Martin Luther King Jr.

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Rosa Parks

BBC article

On a winter's evening in 1955, a 42-year-old African-American woman named Rosa Parks, tired after a long day of work as a seamstress, boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama to get home. Fifty-five years earlier, Montgomery had passed a law to segregate bus passengers by race. As the bus filled up, the bus driver James Blake demanded that she and three other black passengers give up their seats. Rosa Parks alone refused.

I did this because I felt I was being violated as a human being. I had had a hard day at work on the job, [I was] physically tired as well as mentally vexed.Parks was promptly arrested by local police. On 5 December, she was found guilty of violating segregation laws. Following her arrest, a boycott of the city's bus system was organised by the Montgomery Improvement Association, led by a 26-year-old-pastor named Martin Luther King Jr.

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Let the communication flow!

With Genially templates, you can include visual resources to wow your audience. You can also highlight a particular sentence or piece of information so that it sticks in your audience’s minds, or even embed external content to surprise them: Whatever you like! Do you need more reasons to create dynamic content? No problem! 90% of the information we assimilate is received through sight and, what’s more, we retain 42% more information when the content moves.

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• It’s got the Wow effect. Very Wow.
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