How old was Rosa Parks when she died?
(92 years old) Sequencing Write the following sentences on strips of paper. Have students sequence them in the order in which they happened. Variation: Write the sentences on a chart and have students copy them in the correct sequence. (The numbers in parentheses indicate the correct sequence.) If you teach young students, you might limit this activity to the sentences numbered 1, 3, 4, 5, and 7. • A white man got on the bus. (3) • Black people started boycotting the buses in Montgomery. (8) • Rosa Parks died at age 92. (10) • Rosa sat in a section of the bus set aside for African-Americans. (2) • Rosa Parks got on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1, 1955. (1) • The bus driver called the police. (6) • Rosa refused to give up her seat. (5) • The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation on Alabama’s buses was illegal. (9) • There were no seat left in the white section of the bus, so the bus driver asked Rosa to move. (4) • Rosa was arrested and taken to jail. (7) Think About th
