Answer the following questions based on your own opinions! All questions relate to themes we will be reading about in our new book: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
You should hold onto your dreams; if you work hard enough for them they will come true.
Quickly explain your choice for #1. Full sentences are not required.
Once children are grown, their parents are no longer responsible to provide them with money and housing.
Quickly explain your choice for #3. Full sentences are not required.
We should think of the United States as a “melting pot” in which people from many cultures
leave their differences behind and only follow “American” customs and traditions.
Quickly explain your choice for #5. Full sentences are not required.
Neighbors have the right to decide what kind of community they want to have—including who lives in that neighborhood.
Quickly explain your choice for #7. Full sentences are not required.
A parent and child often disagree about the way the child should live his/her life.
Quickly explain your choice for #9. Full sentences are not required.
MOST people don’t try hard enough to understand another person's problems.
Quickly explain your choice for #11. Full sentences are not required.
When someone insults you, it is best to ignore them and walk away.
Quickly explain your choice for #13. Full sentences are not required.
It is the man’s responsibility to provide financially for the family.
Quickly explain your choice for #15. Full sentences are not required.
In a family, it is the woman’s responsibility to care for the children and keep the home in order (cook, clean, etc.).
Quickly explain your choice for #17. Full sentences are not required.
Society determines gender roles (examples: “women’s work,” male head of household, etc.) and there’s nothing we can do to change them.
Quickly explain your choice for #19. Full sentences are not required.
People should always dress and fix their hair in a way acceptable to society.
Quickly explain your choice for #21. Full sentences are not required.
For this final section, you will be picking one of the questions from Part 1 to write a 6-9 sentence journal about where you thoroughly explain why you agree or disagree with this statement.
What questions will you be journaling about?
Write a 6-9 sentence journal about where you thoroughly explain why you agree or disagree with the statement you picked in question 23.
Be sure to use correct spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.