Let America Be America Again

What is the author's purpose of placing some lines in parenthesis?

• Those lines are meant to be ignored.

• Those lines represent the speaker's imagination.

• Those lines introduce a second speaker in the poem.

• Those lines are the most important parts of the text.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Who does the poem's second speaker represent?

• people who owned American land

• people who profited from stolen land

• people who suffered in the formation of America

• people who fought for American independence

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The second speaker claims that...

• ...they built Africa

• ...they built Poland

• ...they built Ireland

• ...they built America

For the second speaker America will be America again when...

• those who worked hard to make America are free

• the people who stole the land from others are gone

• the people who stole the lang from others are remorseful

• those who worked hard to make America are ready to fight

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is the theme of the poem?

• America was once great, and it can be great again.

• America was once great, but it will never be great again.

• America was never great for those who built it, and it never will be.

• America was never great for those who built it, but it can be in the future.

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Which statement best supports the poem's central theme?

• "I am the young man, full of strength and hope, / Tangled in that ancient endless chain" (Lines 25-26)

• "I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil / I am the worker sold to the machine" (Lines 31-32)

• "I am the man who never got ahead, / The poorest worker bartered through the years." (Lines 37-38)

• O, let America be America again— / The land that never has been yet—" (Lines 62-63)

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which statement best expresses how the author develops the second speaker's point of view?

• The second speaker agrees with the first speaker, but wants everyone in America to be happy and free.

• The second speaker questions the first speaker and explains that there are lots of people who are treated unfairly in America.

• The second speaker disagrees with the first speaker and explains the history of those people who have been treated unfairly in America.

• The second speaker builds on what the first speaker says, and describes America as becoming a place where everyone is happy and free once more.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What does the phrase, "And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?" likely mean, as it is used in line 18?

• Who is this person who is talking about space exploration?

• Who is this person who is talking over me when I am speaking?

• Who is this person who is talking negatively about my positive attitude?

• Who is this person who is talking negatively about the design of the American flag?

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9