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Argumentative Essay Graphic Organizer

Shame by Dick Gregory

Prompt: Re-read and analyze the passages/texts listed below. After reading the passages,
write a well-developed, multi-paragraph essay that argues whether or not education leads
to power. Use specific details from at least two of the texts we’ve read.

Topic Poverty, Discrimination, Racism

This essay has been written in the first person. The writer didn’t use slangs,

Target Audience but he used basic and understandable vocabulary and also it uses repeated
words over and over again

The essay is about the story of a little kid who was poor and didn’t have a

Claim father. He figured out what shame was by facing his own life and also he

was victim of discrimination because of being poor

Reason 1
Love made Gregory change his mind

Supporting Evidence Supporting Evidence Supporting Evidence

“I was in love with a little girl “Everybody's got a Helene “I guess I would have gotten

named Helene Tucker, a light- Tucker, a symbol of over Helene by summertime,

complexioned little girl with everything you want. I loved but something happened in
pigtails and nice manners. She her for her goodness, her that classroom that made her

was always clean, and she was cleanness, her popularity. face hang in front of me for the
smart in school. I think I went She'd walk down my street next twenty-two years. When I

to school then mostly to look and my brothers and sisters played the drums in high
at her. I brushed my hair and would yell, "Here comes school, it was for Helene, and

even got me a little old Helene," and I'd rub my when I broke track records in
tennis sneakers on the back college, it was for Helene, and