This document provides vocabulary words and definitions related to Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement. It defines terms like generations, pulpit, minister, shielding, avoided, numerous, and ancestors. It then provides examples of how to use the vocabulary words in sentences and asks questions to test understanding of the word definitions.

1. Fourth GradeFourth Grade
Unit 6 Week 1Unit 6 Week 1
My
Brother
Martin

2. Words to Know
generations
pulpit
minister
shielding
avoided
numerous
ancestors

3. All people born about the
same time; about thirty
years
generations
pulpit
minister
shielding
avoided
numerous
ancestors
generations

4. Member of
the clergy;
spiritual
advisor;
pastor
minister
generations
pulpit
minister
shielding
avoided
numerous
ancestors

5. To keep away
from; keep out
of the way of
avoided
generations
pulpit
minister
shielding
avoided
numerous
ancestors

6. Person from
whom you are
descended,
such as your
great-
grandparents
ancestorsgenerations
pulpit
minister
shielding
avoided
numerous
ancestors

7. Platform or
raised
structure in a
church from
which the
minister
preaches
pulpit
curiosity
glorious
granite
ruins
terraced
thickets
torrent

8. Very many
numerous
generations
pulpit
minister
shielding
avoided
numerous
ancestors

9. Protecting;
defending
shielding
generations
pulpit
minister
shielding
avoided
numerous
ancestors

10. Which means the same thing as the underlined
word?
The minister’s voice came from
the pulpit.
microphone
platform

11. Which means the same thing as the
underlined word?
We avoided driving through
large cities on our trip.
kept away from
tried

12. Which means the same thing as the
underlined word?
There are three generations in
a century.
thirty years
families

13. Which means the same thing as the
underlined word?
Their ancestors had come to
the United States in 1812.
great-grandparents
brothers

14. Which means the same thing as the
underlined word?
They found ways of shielding
the runaway slaves.
protecting
capturing

15. Which means the same thing as the
underlined word?
That took a long, terrible war in
which numerous people died.
few
a lot

16. Which means the same thing as the
underlined word?
It took a courageous minister
to speak out and work for
change.
pastor
president

17. You’ve got
it!