Is the poet's characterization of America mostly positive, negative, or something in between? How does the imagery and language used in the text reflect this characterization? Using the Constructed Response (RACE), make a claim about how the poet characterizes America and
supporting your argument with specific evidence from the text (use at least two piece of evidence to support your argument).

- "a nonrestrictive clause functions as a modifier to a noun (that is an object, person or concept). these clauses can be described by the following three options: it is set off by comas, it contains a subject and a verbs and it adds nonessential information to the sentence.

for example, in "here is bill gates, who confounded microsoft software company" we can identify "who confounded microsoft software company" as a nonrestrictive clause modifying the noun bill gates. this clause can be describes as a nonrestrictive clause because it is separated by a comma, it adds nonessential information to identify who bill gates is and it must contain both a subject (who) and a verb (confounded)."

may i see the historical information and the excerpt?

where is the sentence at?