This poem is told from the perspective of a young black student who, through a class assignment, takes a look at how he relates and doesn't relate to his white professor. He
is searching for how his experiences can compare to those of his white classmates.
However, it goes beyond the issue of race. Any human who has struggled with identity
can connect with this poem written by an influential leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
After reading the poem, answer the questions below:
1. Why do you think the Professor assigned this question to their students?
I think the professor assigned this question to their students because
2. What is the student trying to say to his English B Professor? Cite evidence to
support your claim(s). The student is trying to say that
3. How do you think you relate or not relate to each of your teachers at
Madera South High? Be specific with your answers about each teacher.
4. Writing no less than five sentences, answer the following question:
Go home and write
a page tonight

The following question is based on your reading of a midsummer night’s dream by william shakespeare. why does puck transform bottom? a. to disrupt the play. c. to scare the mechanicals. b. for revenge on theseus. d. to scare the lovers.

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Which two parts of this excerpt from mary shelley’s frankenstein reveals information about the setting? (it was on a dreary night of november that i beheld the accomplishment of my toils.) with an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, (i collected the instruments of life around me, that i might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. it was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out) when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, i saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs. (how can i describe my emotions at this catastrophe), or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care i had endeavored to form? his limbs were in proportion, and i had selected his features as beautiful. beautiful! great god! (his yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; ) but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same color as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion and straight black lips.