2. Which statement describes the connection between the selection and the oxymoron "minor miracle"? (RI 10.5) a. When one's mentors are peers, trouble ensues
b. All of the author's students were still teenagers
C. The author's encounter with poetry changed his life forever
d. The author knew from an early age he wanted to teach

2. Which statement describes the connection between the selection and the oxymoron "minor miracle"? (RI 10.5)

a. When one's mentors are peers, trouble ensues

b. All of the author's students were still teenagers

d. The author knew from an early age he wanted to teach

frances ellen watkins harper writing was influenced by: b. the education she received growing up in the north.

she was born in baltimore, maryland, on september 24, 1825. after the death of her parents, her uncle reverend william watkins, a teacher at the academy for negro youth, raised and educated her. she also continued educating herself by accessing a library of the family she worked for, beginning writing poetry afterwards. as a civil rights activist and abolitionist, watkins greatly influenced her life and work.