Ella Baker
Ella Baker was born
December 13,
Ella attended
In 1957, she moved to
In 1960, Ella founded
the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) after a group of black
college students refused to leave
Ella Baker died on her
birthday, December
COMPREHENSION
1. What do the following acronyms and abbreviations in the text stand
for?
a. NAACP :………………………………………..
b. SCLC :………………………………………..
c. SNCC :………………………………………..
d. YNCL :………………………………………..
2. There are some mistakes in the following summary of Ella Baker. Circle
them and correct in your own words.
Ella Baker was born in
3. Answer the following questions in your own
words as far as possible.
a. Why was Ella’s grandmother whipped?
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b. Why did Ella Baker join the Young Negroes Cooperative League (YNCL)?
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c.
What was the reason behind the creation of
Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC)?
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4. Which adjectives best apply to
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5. Tick the appropriate meaning of the words in bold.
a) …how her owner had whipped
her... (Paragraph 1, Line 4)
q Hit her with a whip ( a long thin piece of leather with a handle on one end,
used for making horses move faster or for hitting someone)
q Sent
her out.
q Changed
her name.
b) Ella […]graduated as valedictorian (Paragraph 2, Line 2)
q (U.S) Senior
scholar who delivers the valedictory oration on graduation.
q Someone who
collects old objects of arts.
q Someone
who travels from one place to another.
c) Ella joined the Young Negroes
Cooperative League (YNCL)…(Paragraph 2, Line 3)
q An expression
which means “having no rights”.
q (Offensive) a
black person. This word was considered offensive but until the second
half of the 20th century it was an accepted word, used by black
people as well as white.
q A
short phrase that is easy to remember and is used to advertise something or to
express the beliefs of a political party or other group.
d) Ella […] fought to desegregate the public schools of
q To cause someone to experience something, usually an emotion or a pain,
less strongly than before.
q To end segregation (= separation) between races or sexes in an organization .
q To leave someone without help or in a difficult
situation and not come back.
6. Match the following words with their definitions
Word |
|
Definition |
1. Slave |
A. an official who has
responsibility for the general management of an organization. |
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2. Owner |
B. a person who is legally
owned by someone else and has to work for them. |
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3. Secretary |
C. a black woman. |
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4. Negro |
D. someone who owns something. |
7. What does the underlined word in the text refer to?
a. He (paragraph 1) :…………………….……………