Description
In this lesson, students read and analyze the final stanzas of “From the House of Yemanjá.” In these stanzas, the speaker calls out to her “mother” for “blackness,” and reflects upon the painful duality of her own identity (line 29). Students analyze how Lorde shapes and refines central ideas in her poem, and consider how these ideas interact and build on one another over the course of the text.
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Bilingual Language Progressions
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Credits
From EngageNY.org of the New York State Education Department. Grade 11 ELA Module 2, Unit 2, Lesson 11.
Available from engageny.org/resource/grade-11-ela-module-2-unit-2-lesson-11; accessed 2015-05-29.
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