and though my head felt heavy,

i played on till dusk

missing flies and pop-ups and grounders

and calling out in desperation things like

“yours” and “take it,” but doing all right,

tugging at my cap in just the right way,

crouching low, my feet set.

“hum baby” sweetly on my lips.

—“how i learned english,”
gregory djanikan

write four to six sentences describing how the events of the poem take him from being an outsider to feeling accepted in his new community.

Read the following excerpt from "harrison bergeron" by kurt vonnegut: he tried to think a little about the ballerinas. they weren't really very good-no better than anybody else would have been, anyway. they were burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot, and their faces were masked, so that no one, seeing a free and graceful gesture or a pretty face, would feel like something the cat drug in. george was toying with the vague notion that maybe dancers shouldn't be handicapped. but he didn't get very far with it before another noise in his ear radio scattered his thoughts. what message about the role of media is best supported in this excerpt? a. media are the reason george is able to watch ballet. b. media change people's values, making them more selfish. c. media tend to make audiences' worldviews the same. d. media can be used to distract audiences from the truth.