This is My America Ch. 9

What is waiting at the end of the Beaumont's street?

• A marked police car

• An unmarked police car

• A gift basket

• A puppy

What does Tracy NOT find in Jamal's room?

• A Bible

• College letters

• An old sandwich

• A notebook with Angela's name in it

How are Jamal and Angela's photos on the news different?

• Angela's photo is old, and Jamal's photo is new.

• Angela's photo is from Homecoming, and Jamal's is one of him with a red Solo cup that says suspect under it.

• Nothing. They are the same.

• Angela's photo is in black and white, but Jamal's photo is in a different filter.

What does Susan Touric bring up after she says Jamal is a suspect?

• The weather

• Sports

• Feel good stories

• Their dad's case

Why was Daddy arrested even though he had an alibi?

• White witnesses said they saw his car.

• It wasn't a good alibi.

• He didn't tell the truth.

• He was actually somewhere else.

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Which is a better theme statement for race relations for This is My America?

• Race relations are bad because people are racist and arrest the wrong person.

• The different depictions of people based on their race offer unfair versions of a person's life.

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Which is a better theme statement for hope based on This is My America?

• In times of trouble, people need to have hope to get them through to a better situation.

• Tracy has hope that her letters to Innocence X are going to free her father.

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"Wake up to the fact that Lady Liberty has failed us" (Johnson 5).

• Hyperbole for how Tracy feels

• Symbol for the U.S. justice system

• Metaphor for the bond of family

• Simile for her crush on Dean

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"We sound like a chorus at the side of the stage" (Johnson 8).

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

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"When did you first start running?"

"You're going to have to ask my mama, because I swear I came out running."

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personfication

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