So Thursday you read JFK’s “Inaugural Address” on pages 1102-1107 and answered questions that followed. Here’s video of the speech.
Today you read an excerpt from MLK, Jr’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” on pages1108-1112. You hopefully got started on the questions that followed on page 1112 (Critical Reading) and the questions that followed on page 1113. Make sure you are writing the question and the answer OR answering the question in a complete sentence please.
Video explaining why MLK, Jr was in Birmingham. (And an actor reads the entire letter! Pretty intense stuff with great video footage of the time period.)
You were looking for examples of several literary devices in the speech and in the letter. One of these is antithesis. Here’s how you say it.
We’ll be starting Their Eyes Were Watching God this week…here is a very brief bio of the author, Zora Neale Hurston.