Tuesday December 15

Heads up! Vocabulary 6 due tomorrow: Wednesday
Break Assignment Due Monday January 4 (or send along earlier)
Read Richard Wright’s Black Boy and answer each of the following questions in a paragraph of approximately 100 words. Make sure to include three textual examples for each in your response.

Note: those who are reading The Fountainhead are expected to read
Black Boy; however, they need not write out the responses.



1. Discuss Richard’s relationship with food.



2. What did Richard come to understand about religion and how did this come about?




3. Discuss how books and literature transformed Richard’s life.




4. Explain the following quote as it pertains to Richard’s experiences: “…they hate him for the tone of [his] thoughts.”



5. Explain the follow quote as it pertains to Richard’s philosophy of life: “I lived on what I did not eat.”