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Lesson 2 Introduction Part 2
Objectives:
- To define tone and determine tone in poems
- To learn the essential questions for the unit
- To define adversity; understand its morphology
Materials
Procedure
- Tell students that before they begin reading Maya Angelou’s
autobiography that you want them to read a poem she wrote
many, many years after her first autobiography.
- Read her poem “Still I Rise.” Ask students
to write a journal telling what they believe is the message
of the poem.
- Define “tone” and use “Still I Rise”
to help students understand the poem’s tone, listing
on the board words and or phrases which create the poem’s
tone.
- Have students return to “Sympathy” and
ask them to determine the tone. Students should list words
or phrases that create tone. Make sure that students understand
that the bird is suffering “adversity.”
- Define adversity and solicit examples of adverse situations,
whether personal or public; discuss “ver”
root.
- Ask students how a person might move from the tone
of “Sympathy” (sadness in the face of adversity)
to the tone and spirit of “Still I Rise” (triumph).
- Introduce the essential questions. Explain that the
questions will guide their reading of the autobiography
and that they will be expected to write in response to
the questions at the end of the unit.
Homework
Continue scavenger hunt.
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