【正文】 you think one person’s actions can make a difference? Correct order: __ __ __ __ __ (2)1Later, he became chief counsel for an organization known as the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). 2Many people consider Thurgood Marshall a valiant warrior because he was one of the greatest fighters for justice this country has ever seen. 3In 1954 his work on a legal case called Brown v. Board of Education changed American education when he successfully challenged segregation in schools. 4As a young lawyer, he worked for poor, forgotten African Americans in Baltimore, Maryland. 5He spent much of his life fighting ignorance, hate, and viciousness and was especially successful through his work in the US legal system.Correct order: __ __ __ __ __(3)1In addition to all of these achievements, Oprah Winfrey has influenced millions of views in the United States and over 100 countries worldwide with her entertaining and thoughtprovoking shows and efforts to help the less fortunate. 2Few people have achieved the kind of success that includes hosting an awardwinning talk show, owning a film and television production pany, and demonstrating abilities as an acplished actress. 3The foundation for Oprah Winfrey’s success probably began during the first six years of her life, when she lived with her grandmother on a farm in Mississippi. 4Where does such ability and talent e from?Correct order: __ __ __ __ __(4)1Born in St. Louis, Missouri, raised in rural, segregated Arkansas, and then moving between those places and San Francisco, Maya Angleou experienced tragic and difficult circumstances that shaped her outlook on life. 2The story of how Maya Angleou has bee internationally known as a writer and poet for her works on pain and hope is linked to those experiences. 3However, very few of these girls have grown up to bee women who can both tell their stories and help others as Maya Angleou has done. 4There are many stories of young AfricanAmerican girls who have lived difficult lives and grown up with much pain.Correct order: __ __ __ __ __B. Directions: Each of the following introductions needs a thesis statement for an essay about a person’s life. Read each introduction. Then choose the best thesis statement for the essay form the three sentences that following the introduction. Circle the letter of your answer.(1)After the Civil War life was difficult for many former slaves. They often worked hard on other people’s farms but lived under harsh rules, in poverty, and without education. Former slaves Patsy and Samuel McLeod struggled to buy and run a farm as well as raise 17 children. Their 15th child, Mary, was able to go to school, and she saw education as a way for African Americans to improve their lives. a. Mary McLeod Bethune was born and raised in poverty, yet she succeeded in being an important educator and political activist.b. Mary McLeod Bethune was an important educator and political activist because she went to school at an early age.c. Mary McLeod Bethune loved school, so she studies hard.(2) People know baseball as one of the most popular sports in the United States, and children dream of being famous major league baseball stars. However, for years AfricanAmerican children could only dream of playing in the separate Negro League because the major league was open to white ballplayers exclusively. In 1947 one AfricanAmerican baseball player, Jackie Robinson, broke this color barrier and opened the way for other AfricanAmerican baseball player to enter the major league.a. Jackie Robinson became a Brooklyn Dodger in 1947, when he was 28 years old.b. In 1962 Jackie Robinson became one of the first baseball players to enter the Baseball Hall of Fame.c. From 1947 until 1962, when he retired form baseball, Jackie Robinson was a top baseball player and a symbol of hope to many AfricanAmericans.(3)During the second half of the 20th century, the struggle to change segregatedconditions in the United States became known as the civil rights movements. This movement began in the mid1950s with the Supreme Court’s ban on segregation in public schools in 1954 and the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama after Rosa Park’s arrest in 1955. One of the leaders of the Montgomery bus boycott was a young minister named Martin Luther King Jr., and through the 1950s and 1960s, he emerged as a peaceful leader of the civil rights movement.a. Martin Luther King Jr. led the civil rights movement but died in 1968.b. For over 20 years Martin Luther King Jr. promoted nonviolence as a way to make changes in a society.c. Martin Luther King Jr. helped Rosa Parks bee famous through the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.C. Writing assignmentsDirections: Write a narrative essay. Choose one of the following topics.(1) Have you ever had to overe a problem or difficult situation at some time in your life? What was the problem? What did you do to overe it or take care of it? Write the story of this situation or time in your life. (2) Everyone makes decisions at one time or another. What was one important decision you had to make? What did you do to make the decision? Write the story of a time you had to make an important or difficult decision.(3) Was there a time when you had to do something dangerous or take a risk? What was the situation, and what was the danger or risk? What did you do in this situation? Write the story of this time you did something dangerous or took a risk.2. Exercises of the descriptionA. Directions: Read the following and identify what types of writing is being described. Write the type on the line before each topic.______________ A story about the time you got lost at Disneyland______________ A web page telling how to create a web page______________ The Harry Potter books______________ A letter to the governor explaining why the tax increase is a bad idea______________ Writing in which you record details of a trip taken______________