The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963 Compare and Contrast
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
Lesson Plans by Elizabeth Pedro
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 is a humorous, yet emotional and powerful novel about an African American family who travels to Birmingham, Alabama during the time of segregation.
Storyboard Description
Compare and contrast book and film The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
Storyboard Text
- Slide: 1
- In the novel, Kenny becomes friends with Rufus, a poor southern boy new to Flint.
- Slide: 2
- In the film, Byron, Kenny, and Joey listen to their cousins talk about the peaceful protests in the South and how they were arrested.
- Slide: 3
- Byron throws Larry Dunn into the fence for stealing Kenny's gloves and bullying him.
- Slide: 4
- ...there is vivid evidence that they would no longer accept the patterns of the last one hundred years.
- A historically accurate newscast about the Children's Crusade in Birmingham catches the attention of Byron and Mrs. Watson.
- Slide: 5
- Mrs. Watson attempts to burn Byron's finger, after catching him playing with matches.
- Slide: 6
- Your kind is not welcome here!
- Byron and Kenny unknowingly order at a whites only restaurant in Birmingham.
- Slide: 0
- Hi y'all! Are you eating squirrel for dinner?
- Our parents were proud of us!
- Nobody bothers my brother, but me. Have you had enough?