Cultural Criticism analyzes cultural artifacts like texts, images, or media to understand how aspects of culture like race, class, gender, or sexuality influence interpretation. This document provides guidance to students on applying Cultural Criticism to analyze a poem called "Speaking with Hands." It instructs students to read the poem, underline key ideas, and generate literal, interpretive, and universal questions about the poem in their journals. They are then asked to discuss the poem in groups through the lens of Cultural Criticism and write a response analyzing how this perspective helps interpret the work.