Rosa Parks
By Victoria Pearson
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This page creates an adventure story starring your student or your child. He or she travels back to 1955 in Montomgery, Alabama to meet Rosa Parks when she refuses to give up her bus seat.
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Turn
on Speakers to hear "We Shall Overcome".
Directions to create story and book.
Directions
to use the STORY FORM above to create this story:
- Enter the name or nickname
as you want it to appear in the story.
- Click on the gender
of your student or your child.
- If you make a mistake,
or want to start over, click on the "Reset" button.
If you want to
read the story on the screen:
- Click on the "Show
the Story" button.
- To return to this page,
click the "Back" button in your browser.
If you want to
print the story in a booklet:
- Click the "Print the Story" button in the Story Form.
- Click on "File" and then "Page Setup" in your browser.
- Select "Landscape".
- Delete any text in "Header" and "Footer" Spaces.
- Click "OK".
- Make sure your printer is turned on and has paper in it.
- Click on "File" and then "Print" in your browser.
- Click on "OK".
- Fold each page in half with the print side out.
- Wrap the cover around the open ends of the pages.
- Staple.
- To return to this page, click the "Back" button in your browser.
Music Credits
Background
Music: "We Shall Overcome". The music was downloaded from the Internet. The composition was widely
played during the time of this story and is still enjoyed today. Music used without permission.
Illustration
Credits
Illustrations used without permission, for educational use only.
Some illustrations have been edited for this application.
- pixBar="images/Roseline.gif" alt="Green line with rosebud" MSN Clip Art
- Music= "music/overcome.mid" Unknown Internet Source
- pixCov= "images/RParks.gif" alt="Picture of Rosa Parks" http://teacher.scholastic.com/rosa/interview.htm
- pix1= "images/HistoryHat.gif" alt="A red History Hat." MSN Clip Art
- pix2= "images/Segregation-fountains.jpg" alt="Segregated drinking fountains." http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/vc84.jpg
- pix3= "images/RosaOnBus.jpg" alt="Rosa Parks sitting on a bus" http://www.columbia.edu/itc/law/witt/raw_images/lect28/13_rosa_parks.jpg
- pix4= "images/SegregationBus.jpg" alt="Segregated seating on a bus." http://www.pbs.org/itvs/fromswastikatojimcrow/racism.html
- pix5= "images/RParksOnBus.jpg" alt="Rosa Parks on Bus" http://www.columbia.edu/itc/law/witt/raw_images/lect28/13_rosa_parks.jpg
- pix6= "images/RParks-Fingerprint.jpg" alt="Rosa Parks being fingerprinted." http://tesla.liketelevision.com/liketelevision/images/lowrez/rosa_parks_bust.jpg
- pix7= "images/Bus.jpg" alt="A city bus" http://www.africawithin.com/bios/rosa_parks.jpg
- pix8= "images/March-CR-1964.jpg" alt="Civil Rights March" http://www.reportingcivilrights.org/loa/
- pix9= "images/RParks-Drawing.jpg" alt="Police Drawing of Arrest" http://www.westporthistory.org/images/Exhibits/This_Old_Westport_House/ROSA%20PARKS%20by%20Sugarman.jpg
- pix10= "images/RParks-jail.jpg" alt="Rosa Parks in Jail" http://fancyrobot.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/rosa_parks_4.JPG
Page created August 4, 2005. Anne Pemberton. Updated
Wed, 10-Sep-2008
. AP.
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