Writing a Narrative Essay about Being Judged Prewriting
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Martin Luther King Jr. often spoke of a day in the future when he hoped that his children would be judged not by their skin color but
instead by their character. Write a narrative essay about a moment in your life when you were judged by something other than the
content of your character. Use narrative techniques to develop experiences, events, and characters

Read this excerpt from we’ve got a job: the 1963 children’s march. then, in 1958, when he was nine, his mother got a job as a dental assistant – and a raise. at about the same time, wash got a job, too. six days a week for eight years, he woke up by four o'clock in the morning to deliver milk. by the time he got to school each day, he'd already put in almost half a day's work. how does this excerpt readers make a personal connection to the story? by connecting readers to his mother’s medical training by connecting readers to the milk-delivery business by connecting readers to wash’s academic success by connecting readers to wash’s daily work routine