“Cuz He’s Black” Reflection
Watch Javon Johnson deliver his poem for our first read-through of the poem. Answer the two questions below.

1. Read through the poem a second time. With the highlighting tool, highlight the places where Javon makes tone shifts. Then, choose one of those shifts and explain the significance. Describe Javon’s tone and explain why it changes.

2. In your own words, what is the theme of Javon’s poem? What is he trying to communicate? Use textual evidence from the poem to support your answer.

Which quote from act one scene three in the tragedy of julius caesar is the best example of foreshadowing a. why all these fires, why all these gliding ghosts, why birds and bees from quality and kind why old man, fools, and children calculate b. that heaven hath infused them with these spirits to make them instruments of fear and warning unti some monstrous state c. it is the part of men to fear and tremble, when the most mighty gods buy tokens send such dreadful heralds to astonish us d. oh he sits high in all the peoples hearts, and that which would appear offense in us his countenance, like richest alchemy, will change to virtue and worthiness