LET’S WRITE ABOUT COURAGE
Can you imagine how Rosa Parks must have felt that day in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat in a bus to a white man, despite the rules that required black people to give way to whites? What fears did she have? What anger did she feel? Can you write what her thoughts must have been? Try to imagine you could live in her head and hear what was going on in her mind. I try to put myself in her position, and all I feel is fear. I’m not sure I could have shown the courage she did.
We’re not all Rosa Parks, but each of us, in some little way, has had to overcome some fears we had by taking action – whether it’s as simple as taking a test again after you failed an earlier one, or flying on an airplane when you’re afraid of planes, or of leaving your country to come to a new land to start a new life. Write about this act of courage that you or someone you know performed and how they must have felt. Share with us!

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