Where Freedom Seekers Yearn to Be Free – page 1207 – 1209

1. Frost suggests that immigration does not have a negative effect on native employment. Does this suggestion seem true?
2. What other information might one need to evaluate this claim?
3. Yeh Ling-Ling suggests that unemployed Americans will be unable to find work if immigration rates do not change. Does this suggestion seem true?
4. What othr information might one need to evaluate this claim?
5. The writer of Letters From an American Farmer, Crevecoeur, seemed to imply that America’s doors should be open to all. Ling-Ling suggests we should limit immigration. Which opinion do you support?

Frederick Douglas – page 1053

6. Hayden says that freedom is both “a beautiful and terrible thing.” Explain what you think that means.
7. What does the speaker think of the value of statues and memorials as a way of remembering a person’s achievements?
8. What does the speaker mean when he says that Douglass will be remembered “with the lives grown out of his life”?
9. How do you think the real Frederick Douglass would respond to this poem?