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Time for Kids February 21, 2020
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The Life of a Leader

本文 King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1929. He studied to become a minister and moved to Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1950s. At the time, segregation was still a fact of life in many parts of the country, especially in the South. King preached often about social justice.

In 1955, an African-American teenager named Claudette Colvin was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama. She had refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white person. Rosa Parks was arrested soon after for a similar act of protest. This led to a yearlong boycott of public buses in Montgomery. It also led to a U.S. Supreme Court decision that banned segregated seating on buses.

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,’” King famously said toward the end. “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

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初心者の英語教材について:

4月の新学期に当たって英語学習を開始する人も多いことと思います。

そこで、ほとんどの人は立派な辞書と文法書を購入してイザ!スタート!ということになると思いますが、私は一つのアドバイスをしようと思います。

辞書と文法書をそろえても英文の「科学的な読解法」はその辞書にもその文法書にも書かれていないのです。結局、学校教育の中で身に着けた日本語学習、例えば古文の読解と同様の暗記詰込みの学習法で取り組むことになるだけです。

そこで一つアドバイスですが、英文の科学的読解法を指導しているのが、この通信講座ですから、1冊でも2冊でもいいから、どのような方法で英文に取り組んだらいいかを知るために「過去問」を読むことから開始することを勧めたいと思います。

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第1段落の'He studied to become a minister and moved to Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1950s.'の表現法。

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