Key Vocabulary
Academic Vocabulary
Spanish-English Cognates
Literary Analysis
Comprehension
100
To change over time.
What is to evolve?
100
To succeed in finishing something or accomplishing a goal, especially after a lot of work or effort.
What is achieve?
100
Asertar
What is assert?
100
An article with facts that are supported with research.
What is an essay?
100
Diverse young people living in poorer sections of the city.
Who are Multiethnic Urban Youth?
200
A feeling of confidence.
What is self-esteem?
200
The way of life, especially the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a particular time; music, art, theatre, literature, etc.
What is a culture?
200
perspectiva
What is perspective?
200
This is an informational detail.
What kind of detail is "the NBA uses hip-hop to sell products, including soda, candy, and clothes?"
200
This culture is not only a kind of music but has changed the way young people dress, the way they dance, what people buy, and the way they talk.
What is Hip-hop's culture?
300
To insist on having your opinions recognized.
What is to assert?
300
A particular way of thinking about something; a point of view.
What is a perspective?
300
innovador
What is innovator?
300
A verse/stanza that is repeated in song lyrics.
What is a chorus?
300
In these lines the author shows he thinks people should take responsibility for making their lives better.
What do lines 17-18 show?
400
A person who introduces something new.
What is an innovator?
400
A mental picture or idea which forms in a reader's or listener's mind from the words that they read or hear.
What is an image?
400
cultura
What is culture?
400
They are most like a poem.
What are song lyrics most like?
400
"Be proud of what you are and whatever you got"
What is the line (from the lyrics) that tells the main idea of "I Am Somebody"?
500
A family's background.
What is a heritage?
500
To express the most important facts or ideas about something or someone in a short and clear form.
What is summarize?
500
Evolucionar
What is evolve?
500
The author wanted to inform readers that hip-hop is about more than music. He wanted to share his opinion that hip-hop is a special culture in an entertaining way.
What is the author's purpose?
500
Grandmaster Flash uses repetition to convey how strongly he feels that everyone is special.
What is the reason Grandmaster Flash uses the phrase "I am somebody" over and over?
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