This lesson contains 10 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.
Items in this lesson
3V2 Tuesday
- I, too poem
- discussion
- homework check + discussion
Slide 1 - Slide
3V2 Tuesday
- I, too poem
- discussion
- homework check + discussion
Slide 2 - Slide
I, too
by Langston Hughes
Slide 3 - Slide
Homework:
1. Read the poem pg. 11 on your print outs
2. Answer the questions on pg. 12 (on LessonUP)
Slide 4 - Slide
1. How does this poem make you think about what is means to be an American?
Slide 5 - Open question
2. How is 'America' represented in this poem and how does it make you feel about America?
Slide 6 - Open question
3. At the beginning of the poem the writer is 'send to eat in the kitchen' and at the end of the poem he states he will 'be at the table'. What do you think this symbolises?
Slide 7 - Open question
4. Who do you think 'they' are, and what are they going to be ashamed of?