Spelling and Vocabulary

confront
implement
justice
melodious
optimism
perspective
privilege
reassuring
solitude
unrelenting
shunned

Open your Recognizing Author's Point of View Book and read pages 4-11.  Complete page 11 Build and Reflect write two ways that the speaker in the poem and the narrator of the story in the first two boxes labeled Similarity #1 and Similarity #2.  You do not have to use all four boxes for the similarities.  Then fill out at LEAST the first two boxes labeled Difference #1 and Difference #2. 

Open your Recognizing Author's Point of View Book and read pages 12-21.  Complete page 21 Build Knowledge. Read Joe's last line from the Zora and Me excerpt: "Giving don't got a thing to do with going bankrupt," Joe Clarke answered.  "Holding back does." Explain in your own works what Joe means by this, and then explain what this implies about Joe's character.   

Open your Recognizing Author's Point of View Book and read pages 22-31.  Complete page 21 Build Knowledge. Write down one quote from Expeanza's point of veiw and Miguel's point of view that show the ways they think similarly about America in the first row of  boxes. In the second row boxes write what the quotes show. In the third row of boxes write a quote from Esperanza and Miguel that show that they have different points of view on America.  In the boxes in the last row explain what the quotes show about how they feel about America. 

Open your Recognizing Author's Point of View Book to page 33.  

On page 33 write a defintion for each word in complete sentences. Next, write a complex sentence using the vocabulary word. The sentence must indicate what the word means and make sense. A complex sentence is a sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. It works best you will need to provide more information to explain or modify your sentence's main point.