Teaching Literature (no notes)

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 2

Lesson aims

At the end of this lesson:
- You can talk about and link the message of a poem to the world today.
- You can write an informal letter with your opinion/ideas

Welcome

TALK TIME

In groups of 4 discuss these questions:

• Have you ever been treated unfairly? What happened? how did it make you feel?
• Are you always fair to other people?
• has there ever been a situation where you have treated someone unfairly?

Read the poem!

Discuss these question

In groups of 4, look at the poem and answer/discuss the following questions:

1. How does reading the poem make you feel and why?
2.  Describe what Maya Angelou would think of racism. How is it (not) similar to your opinion?
3. How has Maya Angelou experienced society when you look at the poem? Explain.
4. Do you think that nowadays there are people who feel the same way as Angelou did? if yes, who are they and what do they stand for? 

George Floyd

Let's do this in your groups!

In groups of 4:
- Read the stanza (=couplet) that you are given by the teacher

- Who or what do you think of when reading this part of the poem?

- Brainstorm together who/what you think of and why.

- Be prepared to share with the whole class.

 E.g. someone famous, a specifc situation etc.

Discussion topic

• Is the message of the poem still relevant today?

You may think of the following:

self-esteem, mental health, vacination, discrimination of gender/appereances/faith etc...

Task: Writing

Imagine Maya Angelou was alive. Write an informal letter to her:

- Give your opinion on the poem "Still I Rise". 

- Tell Maya Angelou how racism/oppression is seen today. (e.g. black lives matter, own experiences etc).
- Ask her a question that you still have.

Done? 
Hand it in on Microsoft Teams under "Opdrachten".

3 things I learned today...
2 Things I found interesting...
1 Question I still have...

Homework

• Hand in the task "informal letter to Maya Angelou" on Microsoft Teams.
  
• Search for another English poem about "racism" and bring it to class next week!