Assignments
- Pre-Writing
- Read Straight Talk About the N-Word by Sean Price (Teaching Tolerance)
- Answer the following questions in your notebook
- Read To Kill a Mockingbird, chapters 4 and 5.
Questions
- What is Coates’s point of view on the use of the N-word by the African-American community? Provide at least two pieces of evidence from the text to support your answer.
- What arguments have been made against the use of the N-word by anyone—African-Americans included? Provide at least two pieces of evidence from the text that demonstrate these arguments.
- What is Coates’s point of view on white people using the N-word? Provide at least two pieces of evidence to support your response.