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<p style="margin:0">7th Grade</p>

<p style="margin:0">Unit 3: Pursuing Dreams: <em>A Raisin in the Sun</em></p>

<p style="margin:0">Lesson 21: Target Task</p>
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<p><strong>Today&#39;s Materials:</strong></p>

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<p><strong>Objective:</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Explain the expectations of the writing task and begin to gather evidence from supplemental texts.</p>
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<h3 style="text-decoration: underline">Writing Prompt</h3>

<p>In this unit, you compared the points of view and perspectives of different characters in <em>A Raisin in the Sun</em>. Each character struggles to make sense of their desires and their place in the world.</p>

<p>In <em>Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You,</em> Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds write about W.E.B. DuBois&rsquo;s idea of double consciousness: &quot;A two-ness. A self that is Black and a self that is American.&quot;</p>

<p>Choose a main character from the play (Mama, Walter, Beneatha, or Ruth). How does that character appear at the start? How is that character impacted by outside perspectives, or bias and judgment? How does that character come to define their own identity? Write a five-paragraph literary analysis about how one main character from<em> A Raisin in the Sun</em> changes from the beginning to the end of the play. Support your argument with evidence from the play to support your thesis. Include a strong introduction, three body paragraphs, and a conclusion in your essay.</p>
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