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Take out homework on “Black Woman” poem

Use it to complete today’s Entry Task(4 questions)

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POETRY!• Rhyme scheme = pattern of

rhyming lines• Use letters to show it!

First sound = aSecond sound = b

Example: I went to France (a) To buy some pants (a) With my brother Paul (b)

Black Woman

Don’t knock at the door, little child,

I cannot let you in,

You know not what a world this is

Of cruelty and sin.

Wait in the still eternity

Until I come to you,

The world is cruel, cruel, child,

I cannot let you in!

Don’t knock at my heart, little one,

I cannot bear the pain

Of turning deaf-ear to your call

Time and time again!

You do not know the monster men

Inhabiting the earth,

Be still, be still, my precious child,

I must not give you birth!

SlaveryLearning Objectives

I can analyze the impact of rhyme and repetition in specific poems.

I can analyze the use of figurative meaning of words and phrases in a poem.

I can analyze how a poem’s structure contributes to its meaning.

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POETRY!• “slaveships” by Lucille Clifton

• Literary allusion = when a writer refers to another famous literary work

The Bible is used most often

(i.e. “Adam” in A Christmas Carol)

slaveshipsloaded like spoons

into the belly of Jesuswhere we lay for weeks for months

in the sweat and stink of our own breathingJesus

why do you not protect uschained to the heart of the Angelwhere the prayers we never tell

are hot and red as our bloody anklesJesusAngel

can these be menwho vomit us out from ships

called Jesus Angel Grace of Godonto a heathen country

JesusAngel

ever againcan this tongue speak

can this bone walkGrace of God

can this sin live

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POETRY!• First, try to analyze as much as you

can ALONE

• 10 minutes

• Will have to do it alone on test tomorrow!?!

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POETRY!• NOW…share your ideas with

shoulder partner

• Keep re-reading….the more you hear it, the more you’ll find

slaveshipsloaded like spoons

into the belly of Jesuswhere we lay for weeks for months

in the sweat and stink of our own breathingJesus

why do you not protect uschained to the heart of the Angelwhere the prayers we never tell

are hot and red as our bloody anklesJesusAngel

can these be menwho vomit us out from ships

called Jesus Angel Grace of Godonto a heathen country

JesusAngel

ever againcan this tongue speak

can this bone walkGrace of God

can this sin live

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Be a Poet!!!

• Try re-writing this line using

alliteration!!

loaded like spoons

into the belly of Jesus

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How did you re-write the line?

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Be a Poet!!!

• Try re-writing this line using

personification!!

chained to the heart of the Angel

where the prayers we never tell

are hot and red as our bloody

ankles

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How did you re-write the line?

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Be a Poet!!!

• Try re-writing this line using

metaphor!!

can these be men

who vomit us out from ships

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How did you re-write the line?

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Exit Ticket!1. What did you learn about slavery

from the poems today?

2. What part of reading the poem was a struggle?

3. What part of reading the poem was easier for you?

Homework

“Harriet Tubman” by Eloise Greenfield

• Read and analyze

• Answer “Mean Machine Read” questions

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