Near the end of his speech, King makes reference to lines from a James Russell Lowell poem (lines 525–533). What point is Lowell making? • How does Lowell’s meaning relate to what King is saying? • Why does King choose to include this excerpt? Make sure your response makes references to both the text of King's speech and the excerpt of Lowell's poem.

Now close reading is an essential and foundational skill needed to succeed in any language arts course. acquiring this skill will you form a strategy when writing about literature. you will be required to perform and develop this skill as you progress through this course and other courses in your school career. identify and discuss your areas of strength in language arts. what do you do well? what do you like doing in a course like this? why do those tasks work well for you? you can also identify a challenge you have that you’d like to work on throughout this course. use this discussion as an opportunity to give advice to your classmates based on your stronger skills and to ask for with skills you are still developing.

1. select a book or movie that has at least one sequel. write a persuasive paragraph discussing which version you believe is better the original book or movie or the sequel. if there is more than one sequel to the original book or movie, select only one of the sequels on which to foous be sure to clearly introduce your argument use at least one ype of thetoric to persuade your reader, incilude specific details from the book or movie and address at least one counterclaim.

The following question is based on your reading of 1984 by george orwell. how does winston demonstrate his “sanity” after being released from mini luv? a. by resuming his work at mini true c. by pledging allegiance to o’brien b. by apologizing to julia for betraying her d. by expressing his love for big brother