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Literary Analysis: Analyze Text Structure: Chronological Order
Academic Vocabulary

  • • organize (or-gu-nīz) verb To organize means to arrange things in a certain order.

How Is Writing Organized? Some writing is organized by time. Chronological order shows events in the order they happened. Time words give readers clues to when events happened.

Practice Together

Use Time Words As you read the passage, use the time words to follow chronological order.

In February 1960, four African American college freshmen in Greensboro, North Carolina, decided to take another step toward equality. They sat down at the whites-only lunch counter in a Woolworth’s store and politely ordered coffee and donuts. The students were refused service.… Then black citizens set up a boycott of local stores. Soon, the stores began losing money and finally, on July 25, 1960, the first black person was served lunch at Woolworth’s.

Start a Time Line Make a time line to show the chronological order of events.

Time Line

Time Line

Try It!

Finish the Time Line Reread the rest of “The Civil Rights Movement,” starting at page 191. Use the time words to determine the order of events.

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a blue dot Find out what happened in civil rights after the 1960s. Add to the time line.

Present Your Time Line Use your time line and time words to tell classmates about events after the 1960s. Then tell what you learned from seeing these events in chronological order.