Introduction to Literature II: Maya Angelou 6 feb 24

Introduction to Literature II: 
Maya Angelou
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Introduction to Literature II: 
Maya Angelou

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Road map
  • Maya Angelou background
  • Still I Rise  (1978)
  • Work on assignments 

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Lesson goal
At the end of these classes you
  • can define a metaphor and a simile
  • recognise them in a literary work
  • outline Maya Angelou's life
  • describe her poem 'Still I Rise' 
  • discuss its meaning. 

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Maya Angelou
Civil War 1861 -1865
Jim Crow Laws start
A Dark-Brown Dog 1893
We Real Cool - 1959
Jim Crow laws end 1964/5
Maya Angelou  -1978
New America  - 2020

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Maya Angelou
What kind of life did Maya have?

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Maya Angelou
What kind of life did Maya have?

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Still I Rise 
What is the message of the poem?

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Metaphor
A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared implicitly, without the use of as or like.

'She has got a heart of gold'.
'I'm drowning in my sorrows'.


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Simile
A figure of speech that involves a direct explicit comparison of one thing to another.

'My love is like a red, red rose'

Robert Burns

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The poem
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

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The poem
Do assignment 1 


Ready? 
Start on 2 or continue with other assignements you have not finished 




timer
5:00

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This week
Wednesday: watching and listening  - read your book


Friday: work on assignments 

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