A) Watch the video and complete the first part of the worksheet

B) Read the text and complete the second part of the worksheet

I've seen it happen over and over again: a black person gets killed just for being black, and all hell breaks loose. I've tweeted RIP hashtags, reblogged pictures on Tumblr, and signed every petition out there. I always said that if I saw it happen to somebody, I would have the loudest voice, making sure the world knew what went down.

Now I am that person, and I'm too afraid to speak.

I wanna stay home and watch The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, my favorite show ever, hands down. I think I know every episode word for word. Yeah it's hilarious, but it's also like seeing parts of my life on screen. I even relate to the theme song. A couple of gang members who were up to no good made trouble in my neighborhood and killed Natasha. My parents got scared, and although they didn't send me to my aunt and uncle in a rich neighborhood, they sent me to a bougie private school1.

I just wish I could be myself at Williamson like Will was himself in Bel-Air.

I kinda wanna stay home so I can return Chris's calls too. After last night, it feels stupid to be mad at him. Or I could call Hailey and Maya, those girls Kenya claims don't count as my friends. I guess I can see why she says that. I never invite them over. Why would I? They live in mini-mansions2. My house is just mini.

I made the mistake of inviting them to a sleepover in seventh grade. Momma was gonna let us do our nails, stay up all night, and eat as much pizza as we wanted. It was gonna be as awesome as those weekends we had at Hailey's. The ones we still have sometimes. I invited Kenya too, so I could finally hang out with all three of them at once.

Hailey didn't come. Her dad didn't want her spending the night in “the ghetto.” I overheard my parents say that. Maya came but ended up asking her parents to come get her that night. There was a drive-by3 around the corner, and the gunshots scared her.

That's when I realized Williamson is one world and Garden Heights is another, and I have to keep them separate.

The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas, 2017

1 a rich school • 2 villa • 3 people shooting guns from a car

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The author of the bestselling Game of Thrones books, which have been turned into the award-winning TV show on Sky Atlantic, has revealed that seeing Hadrian's Wall planted the seeds1 of inspiration back in the 1980s for his popular fantasy tale.

In an interview with American magazine Rolling Stone, George R.R. Martin said it was the Northumberland landmark2 which first got him thinking about the plot and inspired The Wall, an integral part of the series.

Martin said “The Wall predates anything else. I can trace back the inspiration for that to 1981. I was in England visiting a friend, and as we approached the border of England and Scotland, we stopped to see Hadrian's Wall. I stood up there and I tried to imagine what it was like to be a Roman legionary, standing on this wall, looking at these distant hills.

“It was a very profound feeling. For the Romans at that time, this was the end of civilization; it was the end of the world. We know that there were Scots beyond3 the hills, but they didn't know that. “It could have been any kind of monster. It was the sense of this barrier against dark forces - it planted something in me. But when you write fantasy, everything is bigger and more colourful, so I took The Wall and made it three times as long and 700 feet high, and made it out of ice.” 

In the TV show, The Wall is a massive fortification which stretches for 300 miles along the northern border of the Seven Kingdoms, defending the realm from the wildlings4 who live beyond.

Sarah Scott, www.thejournal.co.uk , 5 June 2014

1 to plant an idea • 2 (ici) a monument • 3 further away • 4 barbarous people

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A) Read the texts about these young South Africans to complete your worksheet "More young South Africans"

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C) Watch the video to complete your worksheet about Sharlote Mona

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D) Watch the video to complete your worksheet about Thabang Mabaso

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