“Black and White”(20) Vocabulary Bias- prejudice‚ impartiality Stereotypes- preconceived ideas of what certain people are like Activists- people actively working for a cause‚ usually political #1 What does Keisha feel that Andy does too frequently? Keisha feels the Andy complains to much. #2 What metaphor does Keisha use to describe herself? The metaphor Keisha uses to describe herself is “I’m a rose in the snow‚ the bright spot in your dark”. #3 What does the snow remind Gerald of? The snow
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the books The Maze Runner and Tears of a Tiger‚ they both share the same theme of death. In The Maze Runner‚ Thomas and his friends constantly live in anxiety that they will all be killed by hideous monsters and never make it out of the maze. During Tears of a Tiger‚ Andy had witnessed death right in front of him and had scarred him to a very threatening point in his life. Both The Maze Runner and Tears of a Tiger share a common theme of death because both Thomas and Andy are shocked by death‚ someone
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Tears of a Tiger was a tragic book written by the author‚ Sharon M. Draper. The Publisher of this book was Atheneum Books in the year 1994. This book was a realistic fiction‚ which is something that could be real but was fictionalized. The book Tears of a Tiger starts off with a Newspaper Article dating back to November 8th titled “Teen Basketball Star Killed in Fiery Crash”. Four teenagers named Andrew Jackson‚ B.J. Carson‚ Tyrone Mills‚ and Robert Washington were driving home from a basketball
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This is a Sharon M. Draper novel called Tears of a Tiger about a group of high school basketball players at Hazelwood High that just took a big win‚ and decided to celebrate with a few beers. They end up getting on the road after they’ve been drinking and crash into a fiery abyss. Everyone ended up making it out except one of the guys that got stuck and was killed- Robert Washington the most talented and gifted of the group. Andy Jackson was the designated driver who had also been drinking. After
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Tears of a Tiger by Sharon Draper Anthony Avila ENG 3 Honors Period 3 The novel Tears of a Tiger is about a high school student named Andy Jackson going through a life of pain and guilt. The story begins with a newspaper article on an accident that killed a basketball player named Robbie Washington. They were all coming from a party and they have been drinking. Andy was driving the car and his three friends‚ Robbie‚ B.J‚ and Tyrone were the passengers. When the accident happened the Andy
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Tears of a Tiger By: Sharon Draper Isbn-10 #: 0689806981 Themes: Death‚ Depression‚ Decisions Reading level: Young Adults Teaching Connections: I see this as a good book to use with young African Americans because the main characters in the book are African American kids in high school. The novel is also a very good teaching aide because it includes many different types of writing styles like poems‚ letters and short essays. I feel the strongest point to using the book in the classroom is the
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“TEARS‚ IDLE TEARS” “TEARS‚ IDLE TEARS” Summary The speaker sings of the baseless and inexplicable tears that rise in his heart and pour forth from his eyes when he looks out on the fields in autumn and thinks of the past. This past‚ (“the days that are no more”) is described as fresh and strange. It is as fresh as the first beam of sunlight that sparkles on the sail of a boat bringing the dead back from the underworld‚ and it is sad as the last red beam of sunlight that shines on a boat that
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Addresses: 1) Your Address ( عنوان المرسِل ) The return address should be written in the top right-hand corner of the letter.( في الجهة اليمنى العليا ) Date: Different people put the date on different sides of the page. You can write this after your address you are writing to. Write the month as a word. 2) The Address of the person you are writing to (اذا طلب منك – في الجهة اليسى ) The inside address should be written on the left‚ starting below your address. Greeting: 1) Dear Sir
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rebellion against Britain. King George III and the Parliament have been wrongfully abusing their power; us colonists are tired of their exploitation and resent being treated as lower beings. Alice I hope you will understand what I am trying to say in this letter; that I am fighting for justice‚ do not think that I am throwing my life away‚ I hope that you will respect what I am fighting for. The colonist and I are above tyranny‚ we hope to make a more fair and just government and live in a country that I
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Tears‚ Idle Tears 1) The author in the story‚ “Tears‚ Idle Tears” Elizabeth Bowen‚ Uses an in-direct method of presentation for Mrs. Dickinson‚ Her personality is mainly implicated through her speech throughout the story. Mrs. Dickinson is a very cruel‚ self centred lady; her main motivation in the story is to look good to all her friends or basically look good anywhere in general. She is the type of person that couldn’t handle shame brought upon somebody else‚ so her idea of assessing
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