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Keep the Discussion Alive!
This handout provides sentence starters that students can turn to when they need support keeping their discussion going.
![Student speaking](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/SL_190522_0675.jpg?h=0f4230fa&itok=3-vI66f_)
Compelling Questions for Literary Analysis
Students can choose questions from this handout to help guide their discussion and literary analysis.
![Classroom Discussion image.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-08/SL_190523_0868_for_Web_or_Office_Use%20%281%29.jpg?h=c9f93661&itok=LmKIXDRJ)
Compelling Questions for Literary Analysis (en español)
Access the "Compelling Questions for Literary Analysis" handout in Spanish.
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Sol Plaatje, ca. 1911
Sol Plaatje was the co-founder of the African National Congress (ANC). As an activist and politician, he spent much of his life fighting for the enfranchisement and liberation of the South African people.
![Black and white image of Sol Plaatje writing](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Sol_Plaatje.png?h=133ff0fb&itok=KuJIRhow)
South African Scooter Drivers Union
Spurred by the strikes in Durban in 1973, the formation of trade unions, like the South African Scooter Drivers Union in Johannesburg (1984), provided labor protection to black South Africans.
![Illusration on poster depicts men on motorcyles with shirts reading "SASDU" and gold wings.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-08/South_African_Scooter_Drivers_Union_teaser.jpeg?h=def8f538&itok=JVshKpJE)
Southern Africa Frontline States
The collapse of apartheid and the implementation of a democratic government in South Africa was regionally supported by a group of southern African states called the Frontline States. (The Democratic Republic of Congo, pictured here, was not supportive of the liberation.)
![Southern region of Africa, with visible countries in different colors (Democratic Republic of the Congo, United Republic of Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland)](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Southern_Africa_Frontline_States.png?h=23305f7f&itok=fLDOAQm2)
Soweto Youth Uprising
The June 16, 1976, youth-led uprising that began in Soweto and spread countrywide, profoundly changed the socio-political landscape in South Africa.
![Group of black South African schoolboys running frantically](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Soweto_Youth_Uprising.jpg?h=278a64c5&itok=mnoF6QBw)
Steve Biko
Steve Biko spearheaded the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) in South Africa from the mid 1960s until his death while in police custody in 1977.
![Steve Biko spearheaded the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) in South Africa from the mid 1960s until his death while in police custody in 1977.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/Democracy_2018_SteveBiko_FH282029.jpg?h=39c2980c&itok=RY4sYtvP)