Create a Cause Effect Map for these metaphors









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Create a Cause & Effect Map for these metaphors. Metaphors • “joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity” [paragraph 2] • “the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity” [3] • “rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice” [6] • “This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. ” [7] • “sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. ” [19] • What are the effects of these metaphors on the reader? FOR: • What do you notice about the comparisons? On a clean sheet of paper
Figurative Language • “seared in the flames of withering injustice“ • "manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination“ • "whirlwinds of revolt" • "oasis of freedom and justice“ • "symphony of brotherhood“ What are the effects of these terms on the reader?
Repeated phrases Effects on the reader Use of repeated phrases in MLK’s speech
“One hundred years later” (paragraph 3) Effects on the reader Repeated phrases “Now is the time” (p 6) “We must”: (p 8) “We can never (cannot) be satisfied (p 13) “Go back to…” (p 14) “I have a dream” (p 16 -24) “With this faith” (p 26) “Let freedom ring (from)…” (p 27 -41) Use of repeated phrases in MLK’s speech
Allusion – reminds of another text What does the author want the reader to recall? “Five score years ago” “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness” to s r fe Re What analogy do these references create for the reader? Why important? o t rs e f Re “It came as a joyous daybreak to s r e end the long night of their ef to R captivity. ” Why important?
Staple together • All of the “I Have a Dream” Class work • All maps, reading and response journals
“I Have a Dream Too!” • Directions: Create your own "I Have a Dream Too!" speech by filling in the blanks I have a dream that one day this nation will ____________________________________ I have a dream that one day _______________________________ I have a dream that ____________________________ I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day _________________________________________________ This is my hope and faith. With this faith we will be able to ____________________________________ This will be the day when _________________________ When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
Sharing • Students will pair up with a student near them They will share their dream worksheets with one another. • I will ask each pair to share a dream with the class.