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Slavery Module: Lesson fourteen
The document provides instructions for students to complete tasks analyzing poems about slavery. It includes the poems "Black Woman" and "slaveships" by Lucille Clifton and discusses analyzing rhyme scheme, figurative language, and structure. Students are asked to re-write lines from the poems using different literary devices and provide an exit ticket answering questions about what they learned and their experience analyzing the poems. Homework includes reading and analyzing the poem "Harriet Tubman" and answering accompanying questions.
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Slavery Module: Lesson fourteen
- 1. DO NOW Take outhomework on “Black Woman” poem Use it to complete today’s Entry Task (4 questions)
- 2. Slavery Narrative of FrederickDouglass POETRY! • Rhyme scheme = pattern of rhyming lines • Use letters to show it! First sound = a Second sound = b Example: I went to France (a) To buy some pants (a) With my brother Paul (b)
- 3. Black Woman Don’t knockat 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!
- 4. Don’t knock atmy 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!
- 5. Slavery Learning Objectives I cananalyze 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.
- 6. Slavery Narrative of FrederickDouglass 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)
- 7. slaveships loaded like spoons intothe belly of Jesus where we lay for weeks for months in the sweat and stink of our own breathing Jesus why do you not protect us chained to the heart of the Angel where the prayers we never tell are hot and red as our bloody ankles Jesus Angel can these be men who vomit us out from ships called Jesus Angel Grace of God onto a heathen country Jesus Angel ever again can this tongue speak can this bone walk Grace of God can this sin live
- 8. Slavery Narrative of FrederickDouglass POETRY! • First, try to analyze as much as you can ALONE • 10 minutes • Will have to do it alone on test tomorrow!?!
- 9. Slavery Narrative of FrederickDouglass POETRY! • NOW…share your ideas with shoulder partner • Keep re-reading….the more you hear it, the more you’ll find
- 10. slaveships loaded like spoons intothe belly of Jesus where we lay for weeks for months in the sweat and stink of our own breathing Jesus why do you not protect us chained to the heart of the Angel where the prayers we never tell are hot and red as our bloody ankles Jesus Angel can these be men who vomit us out from ships called Jesus Angel Grace of God onto a heathen country Jesus Angel ever again can this tongue speak can this bone walk Grace of God can this sin live
- 11. Slavery Narrative of FrederickDouglass Be a Poet!!! • Try re-writing this line using alliteration!! loaded like spoons into the belly of Jesus
- 12. Slavery Narrative of FrederickDouglass How did you re-write the line?
- 13. Slavery Narrative of FrederickDouglass 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
- 14. Slavery Narrative of FrederickDouglass How did you re-write the line?
- 15. Slavery Narrative of FrederickDouglass Be a Poet!!! • Try re-writing this line using metaphor!! can these be men who vomit us out from ships
- 16. Slavery Narrative of FrederickDouglass How did you re-write the line?
- 17. Slavery Narrative of FrederickDouglass 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?
- 18. Slavery Narrative of FrederickDouglass Homework “Harriet Tubman” by Eloise Greenfield • Read and analyze • Answer “Mean Machine Read” questions