1. Bellwork Monday 9/26/16
Read the excerpt from Free Minds and Hearts at Work and answer the following questions on your own sheet of paper. You do not have to write the questions.
1. What emotion do you think Jackie Robinson is describing in paragraph 1? Why?
2. Look at paragraphs 3 and 4. What specific beliefs of Jackie Robinson's encouraged him to fight?
3. Jackie Robinson says to his children, "There is a chance for you. No guarantee, but a chance." Do you think he feels hopeful or skeptical about his children's chances? Use specific examples from the text to support your idea.
4. How do you think Robinson hopes to impact his audience?
5. What rhetorical strategy/-ies does he use to achieve his purpose? Explain.
6. Use word roots and context clues to guess the meaning of the following words:
a. imperfections
b. reckoned with
c. sustained
d. unalterable
e. dogma
f. pioneered