Introduce unit 3 thematic focus: The Literature of the Civil Rights Movement; Launch text: "1963: The Year that Changed Everything" (p.254 of TE myPerspectives); Writing skills: use fact and opinion to form a position

summarize main idea and supporting details; analyze, make connections, identify universal themes; apply strategies to define less familiar voabulary; quickwrite: "Explain how words have the power to provoke, calm, or inspire."