• Go to new assigned seat (number and handout given at the door). Read independently the Additional Policies and Procedures handout, and write down questions in preparation for review as a class.

RACER Strategy ReviewRestate/rephrase the questionAnswer the questionCite evidence from the textExplain/expand upon your answerRepeat C and EPersonification is used in Night at the Museum when the museum exhibits come to life at night. For example, there is a scene in which the skeletal t-rex drinks from a water fountain. This scene illustrates personification because normally dinosaurs, or animals of any kind, would not drink out of a water fountain; this is a distinctly human thing to do. In addition, there is a scene in which Ben Stiller’s character is having a conversation with Sacagawea, a mannequin, from the Lewis and Clark exhibit. This scene illustrates personification by giving the non-living Sacagawea the human ability to talk.

I Have a Dream NotesUnit 2: Struggle for FreedomPlace a new tab labeled “Struggle for Freedom” on the first page of your I Have a Dream Notes.

Figurative Language• Extended metaphor - a comparison of two essentially

unlike things at some length and in several ways. It does not contain the words like or as.

• “Bobby Holloway says my imagination is a three-hundred-ring circus. Currently I was in ring two hundred and ninety-nine, with elephants dancing and clowns cart wheeling and tigers leaping through rings of fire. The time had come to step back, leave the main tent, go buy some popcorn and a Coke, bliss out, cool down.”(Dean Koontz, Seize the Night. Bantam, 1999)

• Tone is the attitude a writer takes towards a subject; it reflects the emotional feelings of the writer. A writer communicates tone through choice of words and details. Tone may often be described by a single word.

serious humorous

playful

formal informal

somber

sarcastic ironic

bitterobjective

Examples of Tone• “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a

good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”• Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

• I couldn’t forgive [Tom] or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.• F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

• Prepare to continue your I Have a Dream Notes.

Brainstorm: Civil Rights Movement (5 minutes)• With your designated partner, spend 5 minutes brainstorming

everything you know about the civil rights movement. Write your list in your notes.

• Civil Rights Brainstorm: