Read these excerpts from news articles about bullying. text 1: "i'm trying to do the best i can to stop bullying, at least in florida," jaylen said. "it's not a fun experience for anyone and i just want to stop it all." text 2: "i know that [bullying] hurts people in the inside more than the outside," he said, in an interview with tampa, florida, tv station wfts. "because words are worse than a fist or punching or kicking." text 2 adds to the information in text 1 by describing how much bullying happens in florida. who the bullies were that targeted jaylen. why bullying makes a person feel bad. how jaylen tries to stop bullying in florida.

The harlem renaissance dawned in an era of pervasive racism and segregation. although legally "free," many african americans were still bound by ideas that had their roots in the slavery of earlier centuries. identity and freedom are important ideas presented in many of the poems from the harlem renaissance. furthermore, the values of identity and freedom are not unique to particular times and places. as hughes expresses in "dream variations," all humans want to be able to develop their identities in freedom. what role does freedom play in the poems you read in this unit? what is required of a society to enable each individual to be true to his or her identity and be free to live by that identity? write about at least three of the poems, describing how the poet uses imagery to depict freedom and identity, the lack of it, or the desire for it.

Match the definition to the word. 1. person or group opposing or hostile to another person or group propaganda 2. arranged in the order in which the events happened spatial 3. based upon reason; a rational approach to something logic 4. a method or system used to accomplish something adversary 5. having to do with space technique 6. coming one after another, in series, or in order chronological 7. the spreading of opinions or beliefs implied 8. suggested, indicated, or understood without express statement sequence

Read this excerpt from the grapes of wrath: snub-nosed monsters, raising the dust and sticking theirsnouts into it, straight down the country, across thecountry through fences, through dooryards, and in and outof gullies in straight lineswhich best describes the tone in this passage