“Blues Ain’t No Mockin Bird” by Toni Cade Bambara READ AND ANSWER QUESTIONS 1. What was Ms. Bambara’s purpose in writing this story?
2.The camera man is filming for the county food stamp program. What has he assumed of Granny and her family? What bias is this showing?
3. Why did Granny tell the children the story of the man jumping off the bridge?4. What biases were showing from Mr. Judson and Mrs. Cooper?
5. What job did Granddaddy once have?
6. What did this camera-man and reporter assume of this family?
7. The camera-man says “If more folks did that (garden), see, there’d be no need...”
a. What stereo-typing was going on here?
b. What assumptions can we make of the two men who are bothering Granny?

Returning from vietnam, we were given a parade. crowds of screaming people waving signs — not just on one road, one day. no, they were everywhere. every day. on the streets, on the television, on the radio. a hot, angry tangle of shaking fists and ugly words that threatened us like a monster with a hundred heads. our country had chewed us up and spit us out, and now we were being treated as if it were our fault. which sentence best uses figurative language to match the paragraph's tone? a. our feet were frozen in place as the street itself strained to hold us back. b. i felt unappreciated and condemned for actions i had thought were heroic. c. i hadn't expected to find myself in a rags-to-riches situation such as this. d. we had come home to a feeding frenzy and were being treated as bait.

In the excerpt, what does turner not fully understand because he is a child? the value of lizzie’s friendship the deeper racial conflict the severe danger he is facing the history of malaga island

Which of these sentences uses parallel structure