Monday, Dec 22 - themes across Genres

Objective: By the end of class, students will review Keystone terminology and themes across genres in order to prepare for the Keystone exam.

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Keystone terms practice

Direct Instruction

slideshare themes


themes across genres

Guided
Read Excerpt from House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisernas and then read the poem by Maya Angelou - Phenomenal Woman.

Independent / Guided
Annotate the excerpt and the poem answering the following questions below as you do so. 

For Phenomenal Woman
1. What does "phenomenal" mean?
2. Does she think she is physically beautiful? Why/why not?
3. Is she proud of herself?
4. What words suggest that she is beautiful on the inside?

For "NAMES":
1. What does "Esperenza mean?
2. Does she like her name? Why or why not? List three reasons that she does not like her name.
3. Whose name was it prior to her? 
4. Look in the fifth paragraph....what sentence suggests that Esperenza really does think she is beautiful.

The THEME for both of these is "Beauty comes from the INSIDE."
Analyze  both "Phenomenal Woman" and "Names" and explain how both support the theme that "beauty comes from the inside?"