Setting and Dialect in The People Could Fly
Assignment Active
Visualizing a Scene
Visualize the scene created in the passage. Use your
own words to describe in detail what you see, hear,
and smell.
Bruh Rabbit smells the wind. He find out which way it
drivin. He knock the coal from he pipe. Red-hot coal fall
in the broom grass. Bruh Rabbit blow on the coal and it
catch fire. Fire set pen the field, the broom grass all
around on fire. And Bruh Rabbit find heself a stump
to set pontop and he set up there and he watch and wait.
The fire comin strong all around and around, for true.
-"Bruh Alligator and Bruh Deer,"
Virginia Hamilton

Visualize the scene created in the passage. Use your own words to describe what you see, hear, and smell.

Sample Response: Feeling the heat, Bruh Rabbit sits on a stump in the middle of a field of broom grass. The breeze blowing past him carries the smell of smoke away from the red-hot coal, the cause of the blaze. Bruh Rabbit watches as the flames begin to spread.

Explanation:

Its correct :)

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)