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Read pages 4-6 on the Dream Speech file.
Read the poem By: Dahlia Ravikovitch on Page 403 file.
Answer the questions on the Martin Luther King Jr. Assignment.
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Name: Mucahid Kahraman
12 January 2018
English II World Literature
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday Commemoration Assignment
Test Grade.
Directions:
Please respond in brief, grammatically-correct, and complete sentences.
Part I: (20 points) “I Have a Dream” Speech given in 1963 (on the centennial anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation)
1. Please read the speech from page four to the end. Based on the words and phrases you noticed in the speech. What do you think was Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream? PLEASE TYPE IN A DIFFERENT COLOR FONT. THANKS! 🙂
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2. What evidence do you find in the speech to support your answer? PLEASE TYPE IN A DIFFERENT COLOR FONT. THANKS! 🙂
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Part II: (25 points) Please read the poem, “Pride” by Dahlia Ravikovitch, found on page 403 of your textbook. Please silently read it through twice, the first time without writing anything down. The second time you read the poem, please write down the words, phrases, and images that jump out at you.
1. Write down the words, phrases, and images that jump out at you: PLEASE TYPE IN A DIFFERENT COLOR FONT for each answer. THANKS! 🙂
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For numbers two through five: Please support each answer with evidence from the text.
2. What is the speaker in the poem describing?
3. What is being personified?
4. What does the seal represent?
5. Why do you think that the poem is called “Pride”?
Part III: Compose a paragraph. (Five sentence minimum): 50 points.
Given your understanding of Dr. King and his use of civil disobedience, what do you think his response would be to this poem? Which part of the poem would he connect with the most? How did Dr. King overcome his pride and persist with his nonviolent message? What can you learn from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? You must compose your own work. Do not cut and paste any work into your answers. Completion and turn-in of this assignment means that you understand that you will receive a zero if you copy someone else’s work and use it as your own for any part of this assignment.
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If you need to know more about Martin Luther King, Jr., please use this resource.
“I HAVE A DREAM …”
(Copyright 1963, MARTIN LtrTHER KING, JR.)
Speooh by the Rev. MARTIN LuTHER KING
At the “March on vYashington”
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down
in history as the greates•t demonstration for freedom in
the history of our nation.
Five ~core years ago a great American in whose sym
holic shado·w we stand today signed the Emancipation
Proclamation. This momen:tous cleeree is a great beacon
light of hope to millions of Negro slave·s who had been
~e.arrd in the flames o[ withering injushcc. It came as a
joyous daybre,ak to end the long night of their captivity.
But 100 years late
~egro is still larugui~hed iu the comer~s o.f Ame·rican
~oci. ety and find;:; himself in exile in his own land. So
wo ”’<' come hf'rP torlay to r1r.amatize a s,hameful condition.
In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash
a eheck. Whrn the a. reb it ects of our Re:publie wrote the
magnificent. wonls of the Constitution a.nd the Declaration
o1 Independence, they we·re signing· a promiss’Cl
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honoring ih1s sacn’d ohli,gation, America ha.s given the
Nngro p0ople a bad check, a check which has come back
marked ”insufficient fn nds.”
But we refus.e to helieve that the bank of justice is
bankrupt. We rp.fnse to belie\·~~ t.ha.t there are insufficient
fuwls in the grea.t vaults of opportunity orf this nation.
So we’ve come to cash this check, a check that will give
ns upon oemand the rirhes of freedom and the s·ecurity of
justice.
\Ve haYe a.bo come to this hallowed spot to remind
Ame.rica of the fipJ·ce urgency of now. ‘l’hi:-; is no time to
l’llgagc in the luxury of cooling off or to t.ake the tran
quilizing dmg of graduali::;m. Now is the time to make
real the promi~r·s of democracy. Now is the time to rise
from the dark nnll clrsolate valley of segregation to the
,.unlit path of racial justi<·P. Now is the time to li.ft our
uation from the quicksands of raeial injustice to the solid
r()ek of brotherhood.
Xow is t.he time to mak0 justice a reality for all of
God’s children. It would be fatal for the nation to over
look the urgency of the moment. This swelt.ering summer
of the i\eg:ro’s legitimate disconte.nt. will not pass until
there is .an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality
-1963 is not an (md but a beginning. Tho>se who hope
that tl1e X egro needed to hlow off steam and will now be
l’Olltent will ha\·e a ruoP awakening if the na:tion return1’1
to bu,;ine~;.; as usua.I.
‘l’here will be 11eitht’T rest nor tranquility in Ame.rica
until the Negro i~ granted his citizenship rights. The
whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the founda
tions of onr nation until the bright days of justice emerge.
(Copyright 101i3, MARTI:-< Lt:THFR KIKc , JR.)
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And that is something that I mus.t say to my pBople who
~tand o.n the worn threshold whieh leads into the palace
of justice. In the proce ss of gaining our rightful place
we must not he guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not
“eek to sati:sfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from
the cup of biMe·n:le·s,s a.nd hatred.
\Ve must forever conduct our s.truggle on the high plane
of dignity and diseiplin e. \Ye must not allow our crea
tive protests to degen e·rate into physical violence. Again
and again we mus t ri se to the maje,stic heights of meding
physical fo.rce wi.th soul for-ce. rl’he marvelous new mili
tancy whi-ch has cn.gulfE>d the Negro community must not
lead us to distrust all white people, for many o[ our white
hrotlwrs, as evidcncc•J by the·ir prese.nce here today, have
eome to realize tha.t th eir destiny is tied up with our
de~tiny.
They have come to re.alize that their freedom is in \\! e c.an never be satisfied as long as our bodie,s, heavy \Ve cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro’s basic ( Copyright 1963. :\:fAR TI!\’ L UTHF.R KING, JR.) 4
We oannot be satisfied 3lS long as the Negro in Mis No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will nOit be satis I am not unmindful that some of you have come here Continue to work with the faith that un-earned suffering I say to you today, my friends, though, even though I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Geo·rgia (Copyright 19o.l. MARTI;’\1 LuTHER KING, JR.) 5
l’iweltering with the heat of oppression, will be trans I have a dream that my four little chi1dre!Il will one day I have a dre·am today … I have a dream that one day This will IH’ the clay when all of God’s children will be (Copyright 1963, MARTIN LunrER KING , JR.) 6
York. Let freooom ring from the heightening Alleghenies But not only that. Let freedom ring from Stone Moun When we allow freedom to ring-when we let it ring (Copyright 1963, MARTIN LuTHER KING, JR.) I tell you, even rocks crack, And not because of age. For years they lie on their backs In the heat and the cold, So many years, It almost seems peaceful. They don’t move, so cracked stay hidden. A kind of pride. Years pass over them, waiting. Whoever is going to shatter them Hasn’t come yet. And so the moss flourishes, the seaweed whips around, The sea pushes through and rolls back The rocks seem motionless. Till a little seal comes to rub against them, Comes and goes away. And suddenly the rock has an open wound. I told you,when rocks break, it happens by surprise. And people,too.
extt·ieably hound t.o o~1r fre.room. \\’e cannot walk alone.
And as we walk we must make the pledge t~hat we shall
always march ahcarl We cannot turn hack. There are
those who are .asking the rlevotee·s of civil rights, “When
will you be sa.t.isfied 1” \Ve can never be satisfied as l
with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the
motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.
mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a Larger one. We
<·an never be satis:fie
sissippi cannot vote and the Negro in New York believes
he has nothing for which to vote.
fied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness
like a mig·hty stream.
out of great trials and t.ribulation. Some of you have
eome fresh from narrow jail
is redemptive. Go hack to Mississippi, go back t.o Ala
harna., go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go
hack to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghet.tos of our
.:’\ orthern citie·s, knowing that somehow this situation oan
and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley ot’
des.pai·r. ·
we face the difficult~es of today and tomorrow, I still have
a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American
dl’e.am. I have a dream that one day this 11ation will rise
up, live ou t the h·ue meaning of its creed: “”‘ e hold the~e
truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.”
son~ of former slan’ s and t.lw :-;ons of form l:’r ~lave-owners
will be able to sit do\vn together at the table of brothe r
hood. I have a dream that one day even the state of
Jli~sissippi, a state swelte ring with the h eat of inJustice,
!’ormed into an oasis of fre·edom and justice.
live in a nation \Vhere they will not be judged by the color
of their skin but by the conte·nt of the,ir cha.ra{!.te,r.l I have
a dream … I have a dream tha,t one day in AJ,abama,
with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips
dripping with the words of interposition and nullification,
one day right tl~e-re in Alabama little black boys a.nd black
g.·ids will he abl e to join hands with lit.tle white boy’s and
white girls as sisters anrl brothers.
every vaUey shall be exalted, e\·e-~·y hill and mountain
;.ohall be made lov.-. ‘l’he rough places will be made plain,
aad the crooked IJlaces will be made straight. ,.And the
~lory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see
it together. This is onr hope . This is the faith that I
go back to thC’ South with. With this faith we will be
ahh~ to hew out of the mountain of de·spair a stone of
hope. With this fait.h we ,,·ill he ahle to transform the
jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony
<;f brotherhood . With this faith we will be able to work
togother, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to
jail togethN, to stand up for freedom together, knowing
that we will he fn•e one d.ay.
nble to sing with new meaning. “My country, ’tis of thee,
~weot land of libt>l’t.y, of thee I ~ing. Land where my
fathers died, land of th<.' pilgrim ' s pride, from every
mountain side, let. fr eedom ring.'' And if America is to
he a. great nation , this mn ::..t become true. So let freedom
ring from tlH' prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New
of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from t.hB snowcapped
Rookies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curva
eeous s.lopes of California.
tain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Moun
tain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and
molehill of M~ssissippi, from every mountain side. Let
freedom ring . . .
from every city and eYery hamlet, from every state and
every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all
(If God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and
G(>.nt.iles, Prot.B.stants and Catholics, will be able to join
hands and sing in the word·s of the old Negro spiritual,
“FI’ee at last, Free at last, Great God a-mighty, “\Ve are
free at la.st.”
