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10 points pls actually help. 03.05 Varying Viewpoints WorksheetPart 1: Organize Your Thoughts From Franklin D. Roosevelts Address on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Statue of Liberty From Our Immigrants at Ellis Island by Mrs. Francis E. ClarkCentral IdeaRemember to TIE it together. Identify the topic, think about the information provided, and explain this in one sentence. DictionWas the word choice positive or negative? Did the connotations change throughout? Example(s) from passage: Example(s) from passage:ToneHow would you sum up the authors tone in one word? Hopeful? Disappointed? Example(s) from passage: Example(s) from passage:SyntaxWhat types of sentences are used? Are they long or short? Is punctuation unique? Example(s) from passage: Example(s) from passage:PerspectiveIn one sentence, explain the authors attitude toward the topic. Part 2: Compare and Contrast Varying Viewpoints Using the information from your chart and the model below, write your compare and contrast paragraph about your authors varying viewpoints. While ___ and ____ are both about ____, their viewpoints vary greatly in their diction, tone, and syntax. In text one, the author includes positive/negative connotation to discuss ___. For example, they use words like _______ to describe ____. In text two, positive/negative connotation is used. The author uses words like ____ to describe ___. Based on the authors word choice in text one, the tone can be described as _____. On the other hand, the tone of text two is ____. The syntax also varies. Text one uses ____ sentences and ____ punctuation to show ____. However, text two uses ____ sentences and ____ to illustrate ____. In summary, while both texts address ___, the authors perspectives are very different. In text one, the author feels ____ about ___. In contrast, the author of text two feels that ___.
Read the excerpt from "Elegy for the Native Guards. The Daughters of the Confederacy has placed a plaque here, at the forts entrance each Confederate soldiers name raised hard in bronze; no names carved for the Native Guards 2nd Regiment, Union men, black phalanx. What is monument to their legacy? All the grave markers, all the crude headstones water-lost. Now fish dart among their bones, as we listen for what the saves intone. Only the fort remains, near forty feet high, round, unfinished, half open to the sky, The elementswind, rain,God's deliberate eye. "Native Guard" from Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey. Copyright (c) 2006 by Natasha Trethewey. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers. What does this excerpt express about the struggle for equality? (A.) Even the forgotten find peace at the end of life. (B.) Nature does not discriminate while causing destruction. (C.) Even in death, oppressed people are treated poorly. (D.) At the end of their lives, everybody faces an identical fate.