BTCE Unit: The Daily Me
Activity 3 - How Fake News Does Real Harm
WHAT - Outcomes/Standards:
RH. 11-12.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source:
provide an accurate summary that makes clear the relationships among the key details and ideas.
WHY - determine the difference between main idea and evidence.
HOW - by watching a video Busari, Stephanie. “How Fake News Does Real Harm." TED Talk, Feb. 2017,
https://www. ted. com/talks/stephanie busari how fake news does real harm.
and writing clear and concise paragraph that that answer the questions.
• Why do people tend to believe arguments that appeal to their biases, and what are the potential
consequences of this?
What is an individual's personal and/or civic responsibility regarding consuming/viewing/reading
information via social media?

the major theme of langston hughes’s montages of a dream deferred is the deferred, or delayed, american dream of african americans. the poem is about how african americans failed to achieve their goals in time:

this year, maybe, do you think i can graduate?

i’m already two years late.dropped out six months when i was seven,

a year when i was eleven,

then got put back when we come north.

to get through high high school at twenty's kind of late–

but maybe this year i can graduate.

the poem also depicts how african americans had to keep postponing their needs with a hope that someday they would be able to obtain what they desired:

maybe now i can have that white enamel stove

i dreamed about when we first fell in love

eighteen years ago.

but you know,

rooming and everything

then kids,

cold-water flat and all that.

but now my daughter’s married

and my boy's most grown–

quit school to work

and where we're moving

there ain't no stove–

maybe i can buy that white enamel stove!

however, despite their deferred dreams, the poem shows the refusal of african americans to give up easily and let go of their dreams of a better life. their dreams may have been delayed, but they did not lose hope.

is the answer

how the sound devices the reader interpret with the poet's feelings