Responding to non-fiction essay
"Heeding the Call"
"Heeding the Call"
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Prewriting:
read the essay, "Heeding the Call" by
Childress
highlight the experiences you believe influenced MLK
make a list of those experiences in order of importance
highlight the experiences you believe influenced MLK
make a list of those experiences in order of importance
The prompt:
Write an essay explaining how Martin Luther King, Jr.’s experiences as a young person shaped his beliefs and actions as an adult. Be sure to include specific information from the article to support your explanation. Do not merely summarize the article. Remember that your response will be evaluated in two ways – on your understanding of the article and the quality of your writing.
Introduction Paragraph
Introduction Paragraph
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attention-getter anecdote (story)
quote
ask question that does not have a yes or no answer -
BRIEF background information on MLK.
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thesis statement "What's the point?"- a sentence that contains your opinion about what influenced MLK.
Choices on how to organize your body paragraphs:
(Organize your body
paragraphs in order of importance or logical order.)
| body paragraph | age | experience | adult-child connection | place |
| #1 | elementary school experience | 1st experience | 1st example of MLK's action as an adult | school |
| #2 | high school experience | 2nd experience | 2nd example of MLK's action as an adult | home |
| #3 | 3rd experience | 3rd example of MLK's action as an adult | community |
click here for a
Graphic Organizer to help you organize your ideas.
Body Paragraph #1-
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Must have a topic sentence that relates back to the thesis
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Talk about your first example
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Clearly state your opinion
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Use examples from the text to support your opinion
Body Paragraph
#2 (same for paragraph 3 if your essay has a third paragraph)
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Must have a topic sentence that relates back to the thesis
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Discuss your your second example
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Clearly state your second opinion
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Use examples from the text to support your opinion
Conclusion:
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restate your thesis
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recap your main ideas
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closing statement
Once the essay is written,
type it into your computer and SAVE it to both the computer AND a USB drive.
Bring it to school on Wednesday.
Heeding the Call
by Diana Childress
Letters home expressed the fifteen-year-old’s amazement. “The white people here are very nice,”
Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote his parents from Connecticut, where on his first trip north, he spent the
summer of 1944 harvesting tobacco. “We go to any place we want to and sit any where we want to. On
an outing to Hartford, he and his friends “ate in one of the finest restaurants.”
Returning to the segregated South after that pleasant summer was a “bitter pill” for the young
man. King later wrote that his experiences in 1944 gave him “an inescapable urge to serve society.”
Growing up on Atlanta’s Auburn Avenue, young M. L., as his family called him, enjoyed a happy,
middle-class life with baseball games, a paper route, and Boy Scout meetings. His father was the
respected preacher at Ebenezer Baptist Church, his mother a college-educated musician. His
grandmother, who lived with the family, doted on him. He was close to his studious older sister,
Christine, and his rambunctious younger brother, Alfred Daniel, known as A. D. M. L. excelled in
school and skipped so many grades that he started college at fifteen.
But even as a young child, M. L. noticed social problems. Among his earliest memories were the
long bread lines during the Depression. He learned about racial discrimination at age six, when the two
sons of a white neighborhood storekeeper stopped playing with him. M. L.’s mother explained
segregation to him but told him to remember that “you are as good as anyone.”
M. L. saw how his father refused to be humiliated by discrimination. When a shoe salesman asked
them to move to the “colored” section of the store, Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr., replied, “We’ll
either buy shoes sitting here or we won’t buy shoes at all.” Then he took his son’s hand and walked
out.
During high school, M. L. won first prize in a speech contest and traveled to represent his school
at a statewide competition on the theme “The Negro and the Constitution.” M. L. eloquently voiced the
need to translate “the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments from writing on the printed page to actuality.”
Returning to Atlanta by bus, he experienced that need firsthand when he and his teacher were ordered
to give up their seats to white passengers. They stood in the aisle for the ninety-mile trip. “It was a
night I’ll never forget,” King said later. “I don’t think I have ever been so deeply angry in my life.”
Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved.
"Heeding the Call" by Diana Childress from Cobblestone, vol. 15, no. 2, February 1994. Copyright © 1994 by
Cobblestone Publishing Company, 30 Grove Street, Suite C, Peterborough, NH 03458. All rights reserved.
Reproduced by permission of the publisher.
by Diana Childress
Letters home expressed the fifteen-year-old’s amazement. “The white people here are very nice,”
Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote his parents from Connecticut, where on his first trip north, he spent the
summer of 1944 harvesting tobacco. “We go to any place we want to and sit any where we want to. On
an outing to Hartford, he and his friends “ate in one of the finest restaurants.”
Returning to the segregated South after that pleasant summer was a “bitter pill” for the young
man. King later wrote that his experiences in 1944 gave him “an inescapable urge to serve society.”
Growing up on Atlanta’s Auburn Avenue, young M. L., as his family called him, enjoyed a happy,
middle-class life with baseball games, a paper route, and Boy Scout meetings. His father was the
respected preacher at Ebenezer Baptist Church, his mother a college-educated musician. His
grandmother, who lived with the family, doted on him. He was close to his studious older sister,
Christine, and his rambunctious younger brother, Alfred Daniel, known as A. D. M. L. excelled in
school and skipped so many grades that he started college at fifteen.
But even as a young child, M. L. noticed social problems. Among his earliest memories were the
long bread lines during the Depression. He learned about racial discrimination at age six, when the two
sons of a white neighborhood storekeeper stopped playing with him. M. L.’s mother explained
segregation to him but told him to remember that “you are as good as anyone.”
M. L. saw how his father refused to be humiliated by discrimination. When a shoe salesman asked
them to move to the “colored” section of the store, Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr., replied, “We’ll
either buy shoes sitting here or we won’t buy shoes at all.” Then he took his son’s hand and walked
out.
During high school, M. L. won first prize in a speech contest and traveled to represent his school
at a statewide competition on the theme “The Negro and the Constitution.” M. L. eloquently voiced the
need to translate “the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments from writing on the printed page to actuality.”
Returning to Atlanta by bus, he experienced that need firsthand when he and his teacher were ordered
to give up their seats to white passengers. They stood in the aisle for the ninety-mile trip. “It was a
night I’ll never forget,” King said later. “I don’t think I have ever been so deeply angry in my life.”
Copyright © by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. All rights reserved.
"Heeding the Call" by Diana Childress from Cobblestone, vol. 15, no. 2, February 1994. Copyright © 1994 by
Cobblestone Publishing Company, 30 Grove Street, Suite C, Peterborough, NH 03458. All rights reserved.
Reproduced by permission of the publisher.
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