Create a Cause & Effect Map for these metaphors.

Metaphors
• “joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity” [paragraph
2]
• “the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast
ocean of material prosperity” [3]
• “rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit
path of racial justice” [6]
• “This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not
pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.”
[7]
• “sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an
oasis of freedom and justice.” [19]

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FOR: What are the effects of these metaphors on the reader?
• What do you notice about the comparisons?
On a clean sheet of paper
 Figurative Language
• “seared in the flames of withering injustice“
• "manacles of segregation and the chains of
discrimination“
• "whirlwinds of revolt"
• "oasis of freedom and justice“
• "symphony of brotherhood“

What are the effects of these terms on the reader?

 Effects on the reader
Repeated phrases

Use of
repeated
phrases in
MLK’s speech
 “One hundred years
later” (paragraph 3) Effects on the reader
“Now is the time” (p 6)

“We must”: (p 8)
Repeated phrases

Use of
“We can never (cannot) be
satisfied (p 13) repeated
phrases in
MLK’s speech
“Go back to…” (p14)

“I have a dream” (p 16-24)

“With this faith” (p26)

“Let freedom ring

(from)…” (p27-41)
 Allusion – reminds of another text
What does the What analogy do these
author want the references create for the
reader to recall? reader?

s to
“Five score years ago” fe r
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Why important?

“Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of s to

fe r
Happiness” Re
Why important?
“It came as a joyous daybreak to end
e rs
the long night of their captivity.” f
Re to
Why important?
 Staple together
• All of the “I Have a Dream” Class work

• All maps, reading and response journals

 “I Have a Dream Too!”
• Directions: Create your own "I Have a Dream Too!" speech by filling in the blanks

I have a dream that one day this nation will ____________________________________

I have a dream that one day _________________________________________________
I have a dream that one day _________________________________________________
I have a dream that ________________________________________________________
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day _________________________________________________
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day _________________________________________________
This is my hope and faith.
With this faith we will be able to _______________________
________________________________________________________________________
This will be the day when __________________________________________________
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every
state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black
men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands
and sing the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God
Almighty, we are free at last!"
 Sharing
• Students will pair up with a student near them
They will share their dream worksheets with
one another.
• I will ask each pair to share a dream with the
class.