In the first half of this lesson, you lead the class in discussing another poem, “If We Must Die” by Claude McKay. Begin to shift the responsibility of identifying and analyzing the poetic tools onto the students, prompting them to refer to the How to Read a Poem anchor chart and providing direct instruction as needed.
In the second part of this lesson, students apply what they have learned about poetic tools to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. They analyze Douglass’s use of poetic language from a particular section of the text. Students will revisit this passage in Unit 2 for additional reading and analysis.
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