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North Senior Academy

Quick-Write: I Have a Dream. I am as ______ as a _______, and I Have a Dream. ( create a simile that describes you ). North Senior Academy. Urban Literacy. Twin Day at NSA. Agenda :. Share Out Review author - Wright Metaphor and Simile Multiple Literacies Quizlet

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North Senior Academy

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  1. Quick-Write:I Have a Dream.I am as ______ as a _______, andI Have a Dream. (create a simile that describes you)

  2. North Senior Academy Urban Literacy Twin Day at NSA

  3. Agenda: • Share Out • Review author - Wright • Metaphor and Simile • Multiple Literacies Quizlet • Text Analysis T-ChartsView Dutchman

  4. Targets:00I can analyze a text to interpret the author’s ideas. I can describe five key literacies.

  5. Richard Wright • 1908 - 1960 • Author – Native Son, (1940) • "father of African American literature"

  6. Text Analysis Pattern: Reading, Viewing, Listening in order to . . . • find the gist of the text • find the significant moments • interpret the author’s ideas • analyze the author’s methods

  7. Metaphor an implied comparison of two things -- never directly using the words, like or as Simile a direct comparison of two things -- using the words, like or as

  8. Pam is a mean person. • “Pam is one tough cookie.” • “Pam is as tough as leather.”

  9. You brighten my life. • “A day without you is like a day without sunshine.” • “You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.”

  10. Multiple Literacies Quizlet Functional Literacy Academic Literacy Critical Literacy Cultural Literacy Media Literacy

  11. Amiri Baraka • Born Leroi Jones (1934) • 1960s - Founder of the"Black Arts Movement" • Author of Dutchman, 1964

  12. Dutchman - sections 5 & 6Gist Statement: A subway encounter between a Black man and a White woman. SigMo: • Other passengers strangely appear • Lula begins shouting and dancing through the train • There are witnesses to the situation • It forces Clay to act Reason: Meaning (“read between the lines”): The world is full of temptations . . . Life is a crazy subway ride Methods: mysterious dialogue, symbolism (apples), humor

  13. I Am Somebody.

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