Good afternoon LINC 7,

Today we are going to do some more on-line listening using TED Talks. I would like you to follow the link below to the talk entitled, "Bryan Stevenson: We Need to Talk about an Injustice." This talk is 23:41, so it will be possible to listen to it twice if necessary. *DO NOT enable the subtitles in your language.

http://www.ted.com/playlists/15/the_pursuit_of_justice.html

Here are some vocabulary words that will hear in the talk:

matriarch, enslaved, y'all, hung up on, probation, parole, distort, culpability, disenfranchised, litigation, lynched, unconscionable, degraded, marginalization, conviction

After you have listened, please research these people who were mentioned in the talk: Vaclav Havel, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King.
What is the connection between these three people and concepts of 'identity' and 'injustice'?
Please write about the connection between these three and identity and injustice. Which one do you identify with the most? Why?

This weekend, there are two special things happening. Friday marks the beginning of the lunar new year, also known as the Chinese New Year (Spring Festival).