What do you think it means to be courageous? Think of a time in your life when you used courage. How did it change the outcome of the situation? Was it better or worse? Name a character from one of the stories we read who displayed courage and explain how and why. Then write a character profile ABOUT that character AS that character (ex. Harrison telling you all about himself in first-person - include flat, round, etc…).

Read the excerpt from frederick douglass’s speech “what to the slave is the fourth of july? ” go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through south america, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, america reigns without a rival. which phrase best describes the connotation of the word “reigns”? a sense of opportunity and growth a sense of fear and anxiety a sense of compassion and humanity a sense of oppression and domination