Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Unsettling America

We're going to be looking at Poetry and Poets using Unsettling America as our text.

Go down to the library to return Into the Beautiful North and pick up Unsettling America.

In reading groups, read aloud and share the following poems:
"Immigrants in Our Own Land" by Jimmy Santiago Baca pg. 9
"Indian Boarding School: The Runaways" by Louise Erdrich  pg. 27
"The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor" by Joy Harjo  pg. 29
"When My Grandmother Said Pussy" by Carol Bernstein  pg. 41
"The survivor" by Philip Levine pg. 48
"Sam" by Lucille Clifton  pg.  50

Choose one of these poems (or another) in the first section and analyze it using TPCASTT

The marking period ends on March 21!  Please get all work in!

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