Description
In this lesson, students read and analyze the first stanza of Audre Lorde’s contemporary poem, “From the House of Yemanjá.” Students determine connotative and figurative meanings of words and phrases as they are used in the text, and analyze how these specific word choices begin to establish the speaker’s complex relationship with her mother. Students use their Ideas Tracking Tools to track the development and interactions of ideas in the poem.
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Credits
From EngageNY.org of the New York State Education Department. Grade 11 ELA Module 2, Unit 2, Lesson 9.
Available from engageny.org/resource/grade-11-ela-module-2-unit-2-lesson-9; accessed 2015-05-29.
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