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Literary Elements
I Have A Dream
Think Metaphorically
High Level Question Starters
Use your Vocabulary
100
A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared using the words like or as.
What is a simile?
100
Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are _____________!
What is free at last!
100
What does it mean to have a heart of stone?
What is not easily hurt by mean words or actions of others?
100
What is most important about the theme of the novel?
What is to understand a time in history?
100
Use the word despair in a sentence.
Teacher rating of response
200
The use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
200
Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! What are we free from?
What is prejudice/racism?
200
What does it mean when you jump for joy?
What is a great feeling of happiness?
200
How is the holocaust connected to Martin Luther King's, "I Have a Dream Speech?"
teacher judged response.
200
Use the word disdain in a sentence.
teacher rating of response.
300
The text + previous knowledge = _____________.
What is an inference?
300
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped R_ _ _ _ _ _ of Colorado.
What is Rockies?
300
What does it mean to drown in a sea of sadness?
What is to feel great sadness or to feel forlorn?
300
How has what you learned about the holocaust going to change the way you judge people in the future?
teacher will rate your response
300
Use the word contradict in a sentence.
teacher rating of response.
400
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison.
What is a metaphor?
400
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their c_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _."
What is character?
400
What is the meaning of; Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
What is to not roll in the great expanse of sadness and give up?
400
What character traits will you work towards demonstrating if you find yourself in a situation where someone is being unfairly treated through teasing, pushing or isolating that person from the group?
Teacher judged response
400
Use the word genocide in a question at level 4 or 5.
teacher rating of response.
500
The general feeling the reader gets while reading the story. The feeling the author wants to convey for the event or events in the story.
What is story mood?
500
The name of Martin Luther King's murderer.
Who is James Earl Ray?
500
In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
What is when fighting for what is right and just lets not do it by going about it in the wrong way. What is not to seek justice for freedom through bitterness and hatred?
500
Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. What is your definition of racial justice and how will you go about practicing racial justice in your life?
teacher rating of student response
500
What is a synonym for holocaust?
What is genocide?