Connect with the expression "get" to its value. a lot in advance)
1) get in touch
2) get through
3) het ahead
4) get a feel for
5) get to know
6) get the hang of
7) get a line on
8) get well
9) get the foot
10) get together
a) meet someone
b) to understand the technique of doing something
c) complete a task or an amount of work, especially when it is difficult
d) gather or assemble socially or to cooperate
e) telephone someone, write to him, or go to see him in order to tell or ask him something
f) overtake
g) obtain information about
h) become accustomed to
i) become successful in one's life or career
j) return to a normal

What difference do you notice between this passage and contemporary pose.

The harlem renaissance dawned in an era of pervasive racism and segregation. although legally "free," many african americans were still bound by ideas that had their roots in the slavery of earlier centuries. identity and freedom are important ideas presented in many of the poems from the harlem renaissance. furthermore, the values of identity and freedom are not unique to particular times and places. as hughes expresses in "dream variations," all humans want to be able to develop their identities in freedom. what role does freedom play in the poems you read in this unit? what is required of a society to enable each individual to be true to his or her identity and be free to live by that identity? write about at least three of the poems, describing how the poet uses imagery to depict freedom and identity, the lack of it, or the desire for it.

The first step in making a mental model for a compare-and-contrast text is a. comparing the two things being described. b. finding important details in the text. c. contrasting the two things being described. d. connecting details to what is already known.