How to Transform is a well-told story and was selected because it broadens readers’ ideas about the power of diverse stories. What does diverse mean? Gather your ideas and expand on your initial ideas by including human, cultural and family diversity.
Consider ways in which reading diverse stories helps us recognize ourselves.

But one hundred years later, the negro still is not free. one hundred years later, the life of the negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. one hundred years later, the negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. one hundred years later, the negro is still languishing in the corners of american society and finds himself an exile in his own land. so we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. in paragraph 3, which rhetorical technique is being used to add emphasis? a) overstatement b) understatement c) parallel structure d) rhetorical question

How many syllables does a tanka have? a. 31 b. 17 c. 14 d. 10

Define the following word using the meaning of the suffix. use your dictionary if you are uncertain of the definition. argument a. full of disagreement b. act of disagreement c. state of disagreement d. quality of disagreement