Read the sample again. Think about how you can change word choice and details to write for an older audience. It’s more important than ever for young people to help keep our planet clean. Pollution is increasing, which can cause us to be sick. Hopefully, before you throw a bottle in the trash or garbage out the window, you stop and think about how it affects the planet. Try to recycle and pick up trash to keep the earth clean from litter. How else can you and your friends help the environment?

To write for an older audience, "young people" can be changed to
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The words "us to be sick" can be changed to
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What suggestion can be added that would be suitable for an older audience?

The last sentence can be changed to

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The harlem renaissance dawned in an era of pervasive racism and segregation. although legally "free," many african americans were still bound by ideas that had their roots in the slavery of earlier centuries. identity and freedom are important ideas presented in many of the poems from the harlem renaissance. furthermore, the values of identity and freedom are not unique to particular times and places. as hughes expresses in "dream variations," all humans want to be able to develop their identities in freedom. what role does freedom play in the poems you read in this unit? what is required of a society to enable each individual to be true to his or her identity and be free to live by that identity? write about at least three of the poems, describing how the poet uses imagery to depict freedom and identity, the lack of it, or the desire for it.