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