Please read through Page 2 to read the text I. Too. Have a Dream. You will be using this for an upcoming thesis at the end of this lesson. We encourage you to highlight it for:
• Types of figurative language (refer to your notetaking guide from lesson 2.01 to
help you)
• Where the claim (or thesis) is present
Where facts/support is presented, etc.
Use the chart below, as you read the letter, to help you make notes:
fypes of figurative
language identified
(and identify which
paragraph they are
in)
Where is the claim?
What facts are
used?

Will give if correct read the passage first of all, if someone says your dream is impossible, they’re wrong. you can’t prove that something is impossible-all you know is that [it] hasn’t been done yet. people said no one could scale mount everest, but in 1953, sir edmund hilary and tenzing norgay gazed down upon the world from its summit. people said that man could not fly, but in 1903, orville and wilbur wright made the first sustained powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine. people said, “okay, we admit that someone could climb mount everest, and we admit that man has learned to fly, but no one will ever, ever walk on the face of the moon.” if we can send three men a quarter of a million miles away and bring them home safely, is there any great task we cannot accomplish? which identifies the textual evidence that best supports the claim: the authors purpose is to persuade? a: the author shares historical information about the wright brothers. b: the author states that men have walked the moon. c: the author states that others who think your dreams are impossible are wrong. d: the author wants to know what tasks we cannot accomplish.

Like a boil that can never be cured as long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its pus-flowing ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must likewise be exposed, with all of the tension its exposing creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured. mood: tone:

How does the author create a feeling of suspense or tension in this story? a) by showing an intimate relationship exists between the father and son b) by characterizing the father as an impulsive man who takes radical chances c) by creating a dark, stormy setting and introducing a mysterious, cursed object d) by showing the mother's revolted reaction to the appearance of the monkey's paw