Contemp Comp (Period 5) Assignments

explain the use of superstition and the impoct that it has on the stories "The Piano Lesson", The Crucible", and on your daily life
Two pages, typed, (4 grades)

In A Well Developed One Page Paper Explain How Mama Represents African American
Woman Of The Past And Benetha Represents The African American Woman Of The 1950's

Vocabulary words due, March 29

1. Flippancy
2. Wrought
3. Monologue
4. Gail
5. Agitated
6. Epitaph
7. Negotiate
8. Groping
9. Reverie
10. Bustling

In a two page paper, (must be typed) Explain the economic, social, and educational opportunities that exist today that minorities didn’t have in the 1950s.

Answer the following five questions:

1. How does Mama's reminiscence capture the idea of a "Dream Deferred?"
2. How does Mama characterize her late husband?
3. How does Beneatha justify her view of "rich colored people?"
4. What other clues have there been that Ruth is not feeling well?
5. What causes Mama to be concerned for Beneatha?

Ask your parent what are the things that they didn't have that you have growing up?

Look up the words "Black" and "White" in any dictionary.

Classwork for today was to write a one page explication about the following poem with one paragraph about line #7:

"MY HEART LEAPS UP WHEN I BEHOLD"
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.
1802.