1. Quick-Write: I Have a Dream
Quick-Write: I Have a Dream. I am as ______ as a _______, and I Have a Dream. (create a simile that describes you)

2. North Senior Academy
Urban Literacy
Twin Day at NSA

3. Agenda: Share Out Review author - Wright Metaphor and Simile
Multiple Literacies Quizlet
Text Analysis T-Charts View Dutchman

4. Targets: 0 0 I can analyze a text to interpret the author’s ideas.
I can describe five key literacies.

6. Richard Wright
Author – Native Son, (1940)
"father of African American literature"

7. Text Analysis Pattern:
Reading, Viewing, Listening
in order to . . .
find the gist of the text
find the significant moments
interpret the author’s ideas
analyze the author’s methods

8. Metaphor
an implied comparison of two things -- never directly using the words, like or as
Simile
a direct comparison of two things -- using the words, like or as

9. Pam is a mean person. “Pam is one tough cookie.”
“Pam is as tough as leather.”

10. You brighten my life.
“A day without you is like a day without sunshine.”
“You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.”

11. Multiple Literacies Functional Literacy Academic Literacy
Quizlet
Functional Literacy
Academic Literacy
Critical Literacy
Cultural Literacy
Media Literacy

12. Amiri Baraka
Born Leroi Jones (1934)
1960s - Founder of the "Black Arts Movement"
Author of Dutchman, 1964

14. SigMo: Reason: Other passengers strangely appear
Dutchman - sections 5 & 6 Gist Statement: A subway encounter between a Black man and a White woman.
SigMo:
Reason:
Other passengers strangely appear
Lula begins shouting and dancing through the train
There are witnesses to the situation
It forces Clay to act
Meaning (“read between the lines”):
The world is full of temptations Life is a crazy subway ride
Methods: mysterious dialogue, symbolism (apples), humor

16. I Am
Somebody.