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Shame- Dick Gregory

Vocabulary

Key Passages

1. " Everybody's got a Helene Tucker, a symbol of everything you want." (para 2)

" There was shame in wearing the brown and orange and white plaid mackinaw the welfare gave to 3,000 boys." (para 28)

Mackinaw- a short coat made of thick, heavy woolen cloth.

2." I was pregnant with poverty." (para 5)

Allusion

" The eagle always flew on Friday."(para7)

Dick Gregory's Main Points

Work cited

1.http://biography.yourdictionary.com/dick-gregory

The End

3. " I guess she couldn't see a kid who made noises because he wanted someone to know he was there." (para 6)

1. Express what shame can cause.

4. "Yeah, the whole world heard the teacher that day, we all know you don't have a Daddy." (para 28)

Authors Purpose

" I walked out of school that day, and for a long time I didn't go back very often." (para 27)

2. Shame can be empowering.

1. Informative

2. Narrative Essay

"When I broke track records in college it was for Helene."(para 3)

Thesis statement

Dick Gregory

" I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that." (para 1)

1. Born in Saint Louis, Misssouri

2. Interested in Social Issues

3. Attended Southern Illinois University

4. U.S Army

5. Profile in "Times Magazine"

6. Civil Rights activist

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