1. “To what extent did Mohandas
Gandhi’s belief in non-violent protest
shape India?”
SS7H3: “The student will
analyze continuity and
change in Southern and
Eastern Asia leading to
the 21st Century.”
b) “Describe the impact
of Mohandas Gandhi’s
belief in non-protest.”
2. King and Gandhi
“Nonviolence is the “I object to violence when it
answer to the crucial appears to do good. The
political and moral good is only temporary;
questions of our time…” the evil it does is
-
permanent.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Mohandas Gandhi
3. Guiding Questions (King Quote)
• What do you remember
about Martin Luther King,
Jr. from 5th grade?
• How did Martin Luther
King, Jr. lead the civil
rights movement in the
“Nonviolence is the U.S.?
answer to the crucial • What do you believe
political and moral would have occurred if
questions of our time…” King used more violent
- Martin Luther King, Jr. methods to influence the
civil rights movement?
4. Guiding Questions (Gandhi Quote)
• What did Mohandas
Gandhi believe about
violence?
• What do Mohandas
Gandhi and Martin Luther
“I object to violence when King, Jr. have in common?
it appears to do good. • How do you think that
The good is only Gandhi led the Indian
temporary; the evil it independence movement
does is permanent.” against the British?
- Mohandas Gandhi
7. Excerpt: Excerpt:
“I Still Believe in Non-Violence” “Congress Responsibility For The
Disturbances, 1942-43”
“For the non-violent soldier must At the risk of some repetition, it is
have the capacity to bear severe necessary to emphasize again the
beatings, torture, mutilations, fact that Mr. Gandhi knew that any
starvation and worse, and accept mass movement started in India
these without fear and without would be a violent movement. He
answer against those who knew this from his bitter
oppress him.” experience of the movements he
had led ten and twenty years
before. In spite of this knowledge,
he was prepared to take the risk of
outbreaks of rioting and disorder—
Gandhi, M. K. (1943, June 26). I still a risk which in his writings he tried
believe in non-violence. Collier’s, 17.
to minimize but in his mind he must
have estimated correctly.
The Indian Annual Register,
1942, Vol. II, pp. 199-20O
8. Gandhi Articles
• Read your selected article:
– “I Still Believe in Non-
Violence”
– “The World Will Hear More
of Gandhi”
• While you read your article,
complete your “Reading
Guide.”
9. Summary
• Students will work in cooperative groups of 3.
• Share your summaries with your group
members and draw conclusions about the
impact of Gandhi’s belief in non-violent
protest.
• As you listen to the other summaries, identify
similarities and differences that are
discovered.
11. RAFT Activity
“I Still Believe in Non- “The World Will Hear More of
Violence” Gandhi”
• Role: • Role:
– A farmer in India – A British soldier who is stationed
• Audience: in India
– Other Indian farmers • Audience:
• Format: – Himself
– Letter • Format:
• Topic: – Journal entry
– Why they should follow Gandhi in • Topic:
his non-violent protest against the – His personal struggle against the
British non-violent protestors
