2. Once the jury decision about Khalil is made public, unrest in Garden Heights begins. “Sirens
wail outside. The news shows three patrol cars that have been set ablaze at the police
precinct...A gas station near the freeway gets looted... My neighborhood is a war zone"
(Chapter 9, pp. 136-139). There's a long history of this happening, from the Watts protests in
the 1960s to the protest after the Rodney King verdict in 1992 to protests after the death of
Mike Brown in 2015 in Ferguson, starting the “Black Lives Matter" campaign. Why does the
neighborhood react this way? What is Starr's reaction?

Compare dee’s and her mother’s spoken language

Read the following passage: sari couldn't believe her bad luck. she had locked her keys in the car. to add fuel to the fire, her cell phone was in the locked car, and she was late for a very important meeting. she knocked on her neighbor's door so that she could ask to use his phone, but he was not not home. what was she to do? what role does the idiom in the passage serve? a. it shows that sari has incredibly bad luck when it comes to work. b. it shows that sari's neighbor was not home either. c. it shows that sari locked her keys in the car. d. it shows that sari's situation was worse than it seemed at first.

Which of these excerpts is most clearly an example of narrative poetry? a. “in xanadu did kubla khan/a stately pleasure dome decree…” b. “and all that’s best of dark and bright/meet in her aspect and her eyes…” c. “who can contemplate fame through clouds unfold/the star which rises…” d. “one shade the more, one ray the less/had half impaired the nameless grace…”