Brown v. Board of Education
On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court announced its historic Brown v. Board of Education
decision, declaring segregation of public schools unconstitutional. Not only did the court reject the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which ruled separate facilities legal if they were equal, but it also concluded that "separated educational facilities are inherently unequal." In 1955, the court issued the "Brown 11" decision, charging communities to desegregate their schools "with all deliberate speed," but it set no timetables and left specific decisions up to lower courts. In most communities, strong local opposition to integration produced long delays and bitter conflict. By the fall of 1957, when Dorothy Counts lived in Charlotte, North Carolina, only 684 of 3,000 affected southern school districts had even begun to desegregate their schools. Those young people, like Counts, who integrated all-white schools were often taunted, harassed and threatened with violence.
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I can determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text.
I can analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama.
I can determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful.
Written in Pencil in a Sealed Railway-Car (Class handout / copy below)
Genesis 4 New International Version (NIV)
Cain and Abel
4 Adam[a] made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain.[b] She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth[c] a man.” 2 Later she gave birth to his brother Abel.
Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil. 3 In the course of time Cain brought some of the fruits of the soil as an offering to the Lord.4 And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering, 5 but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.
6 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? 7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”
Definition of Aposiopesis
Aposiopesis is derived from a Greek word that means “becoming silent.” It is a rhetorical device that can be defined as a figure of speech in which the speaker or writer breaks off abruptly, and leaves the statement incomplete. It is as if the speaker is not willing to state what is present in his mind, due to being overcome by passion, excitement, or fear.
Written
in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car
By: Dan Pagis
here in this carload
I am eve
with abel my son
if you see my other son
cain son of man
tell him I
I am eve
with abel my son
if you see my other son
cain son of man
tell him I
Name_______________
Written
in Pencil in the Sealed Railway-Car
By: Dan Pagis
here in this carload
I am eve
with abel my son
if you see my other son
cain son of man
tell him I
I am eve
with abel my son
if you see my other son
cain son of man
tell him I
1. How many lines in the poem?
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2. To what family is the poem referring?
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3. What is the setting of the poem?
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4. Why choose this framework?
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5. What does the mother want to happen?
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6. Four themes are represented in these
six lines:
1. the case of the first murder in the
history of mankind
2. the need to leave testimony*
3. the place and role of mothers in the
two tragedies of the first family
4. the Holocaust, and the Holocaust itself.
7. In approximately 5 to 7 well-written
sentences that incorporate text, discuss the message that the speaker wishes to
“tell [her] son Cain”.
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