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Teaching America

America

The story satirizes the policy of equality of outcome as an agent for achieving societal equality, and dramatizes the dystopian effects of such a policy if implemented to its logical extreme via government social engineering.

Claude McKay
Public Domain

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

How does the speaker feel about his relationship with America?
STANDARDS:
RL.2 - Main Ideas, RL.4 - Key Terms & Tone, RL.6 - Point of View

DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE (DOK) LEVELS:

2,3
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