Objectives: Evaluate poetry for tone, mood, themes, poetic techniques, and author purpose. Students will also identify and define unknown vocabulary words.
SWBAT: Students will be able to evaluate poetry by several authors for tone, mood, themes, poetic devices, rhetorical devices, and author purpose.
Do Now:
Take a sheet of paper.
In "Elements of Literature," turn to p. 745 and read "Tableau" by Countee Cullen.
Answering the following questions:
1. What is the tone of the poem?
2. What is the mood?
3. What are the themes in the poem?
4. List an example of alliteration?
5. What is the author's purpose?
Review "Tableau"
Bio of Langston Hughes - write down three facts, then write a short bio on Hughes
Begin analysis of "A Dream Deferred."
