No Disrespect
By: Sister Souljah
Comments:
1. That man is like my daddy, every time I feel sad he makes me feel like a princess.
2. Their goal is to close the gaps that exist in their community: young and old and upper, middle, and lower class.
3. She is going to spend a whole year of commission researching the conditions of our people in various parts of the nation.
4. A girl named Tusani who lives in bad conditions became good friends with her.
5. The life Africans are living is bad. Whites shouldn't be racist.
Questions:
1. Will she accept to be part of this challenge?
2. How is she going to accomplish her task?
3. What will happen to Shorty and Tusani?
4. Is their going to be an improvement in the hotel and families?
Vocabulary:
1. Reluctant: feeling or showing no willingness or enthusiasm to do something pg. 230
2. Predicament: a difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation from which there is no clear or easy way out pg. 236
3. Embroidered: to do decorative needlework, or decorate fabric with needlework pg. 242
Literary Terms:
1. "... yellow foam screaming for freedom ... " Personification pg. 243
2. " The train came to a screeching halt and we walked to the Martinique welfare hotel." pg. 246
Overview Sentence:
1. She takes a stand and joins a commission to help her community, to stop Africans to be treating each other wrong and being thought as lower class.
