Description
This Poetry Activity is a great way to incorporate ELA lessons during Women’s History Month or Black History Month!
This purchase includes:
- An introduction to the life of Maya Angelou
- Analyses of Angelou’s three poems: Still I Rise, Caged Bird, and Woman Work
- A constructed response question which requires students to compare and contrast two of the three poems based on theme, imagery, tone, language, style, mood, or the influence of Angelou’s life on her work
- Sentence starters for struggling writers to write the text-dependent analysis paragraph
The analyses questions cover important poetic devices including: simile, tone, alliteration, rhyme scheme, speaker, repetition, imagery, personification, juxtaposition, universal theme, stanzas, and mood.
This resource includes ready-to-print PDFs as well as an EDITABLE Word Document included for teachers in case they would like to edit the assignment.
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