FINDING COMMON GROUND Use your notes to come up with ideas for a group discussion of Santha Rama Rau's experiences. If you need more questions to stimulate discussion, you might try these:
1. Describe the breakthroughs in this selection Who do you think made them, and why are the breakthroughs important?
2. What would you have done if you had been in Premila's situation? What would you have done as her parent?
3. What does this autobiographical excerpt say about the nature of prejudice? Do you think events like the ones Rau described are hap- pening in other settings today? Explain.

Read the passage and choose the correct punctuation marks

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.

Which fact from the tinker vs des moines court decision best supports the reasoning that the conduct of the student protesters was protected by the fourteenth amendment, which prohibits deprivation of life liberty, or property? apex