Introduction to Literature II: Maya Angelou 6 feb 24

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo lwoo, vwo
• Leerjaar 5

Introduction to Literature II: 

Maya Angelou

Road map

• Why Black American Lit?
• Maya Angelou background
• Still I Rise  (1978)
• Work on assignments 

Why?

specific message

general message

Lesson goal

At the end of these classes you

• can define a metaphor and a simile
• recognise them in a literary work
• outline Maya Angelou's life
• describe her poem 'Still I Rise' 
• discuss its meaning. 

History

Slavery

Civil War

Jim Crow Laws

Maya Angelou

Civil War 1861 -1865

Jim Crow Laws start

We Real Cool - 1959

Jim Crow Laws end 1964/5

Maya Angelou  -1978

New America  - 2020

Maya Angelou

What kind of life did Maya have?

Maya Angelou

What kind of life did Maya have?

Still I Rise 

What is the message of the poem?

Metaphor

A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared implicitly, without the use of as or like.

'She has got a heart of gold'.

'I'm drowning in my sorrows'.

Simile

A figure of speech that involves a direct explicit comparison of one thing to another.

'My love is like a red, red rose'

Robert Burns

The poem

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise.

The poem

Do assignment 1 

Ready? 

Start on 2 or continue with other assignements you have not finished 

Next week

Wednesday: watching and listening  - read your book

Friday: work on assignments