Maya Angelou Maya Angelou Maya Angelou was an
Description: Maya Angelou Maya Angelou Maya Angelou was an American memoirist, popular poet, and civil rights activist. Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri. Angelou had a broad career as a singer, dancer, actress, composer,
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slide1. Maya Angelou<br>
slide2. Maya Angelou Maya Angelou was an American memoirist, popular poet, and civil rights activist.
Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri. Angelou had a broad career as a singer, dancer, actress, composer, and Hollywood’s first female black director, but became most famous as a writer, editor, essayist, playwright, and poet.<br>
slide4. Maya Angelou - Quotes<br>
slide6. STILL I RISE https://youtu.be/qviM_GnJbOM<br>
slide9. Still I Rise ‘Still I Rise’ is a poem by the American poet Maya Angelou (1928-2014), published in her 1978 collection And Still I Rise.
A kind of protest poem which is defiant as well as celebratory, ‘Still I Rise’ is about the power of the human spirit to overcome discrimination and hardship, with Angelou specifically reflecting her attitudes as a black American woman.<br>
slide10. Summary and Analysis Beginning with a pointed and direct reference to ‘you’ to capture our attention. Although people may seek to belittle her, Angelou asserts that, even if she is trodden (beaten) into the dirt, like the dust rising from someone’s boot, she, too, will rise and will not be defeated.
Maya Angelou’s work is about the importance of not being defeated by the obstacles and challenges life throws at you.
Despite these hardships Maya Angelou consistently highlights the positive and inspirational aspects of humanity, and ‘Still I Rise’ is one of her best-known poems which shows the positive qualities within humans.
When read by victims of wrongdoing, the poem becomes a kind of anthem, a beacon of hope for the oppressed.<br>
slide11. What is the message of Still I Rise? 'Still I Rise' is primarily about self-respect and confidence. In the poem, Angelou reveals how she will overcome anything through her self-esteem. She shows how nothing can get her down. She will rise to any occasion, and nothing, not even her skin color, will hold her back.<br>
slide12. Analysis questions What is the theme of this poem? Choose one image from this poem and discuss how it relates to that theme.
Identify two poetic techniques in this poem. Explain how the use of these language techniques add to the poem.
* Use PIE Method to answer<br>
slide2. Maya Angelou Maya Angelou was an American memoirist, popular poet, and civil rights activist.
Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri. Angelou had a broad career as a singer, dancer, actress, composer, and Hollywood’s first female black director, but became most famous as a writer, editor, essayist, playwright, and poet.<br>
slide4. Maya Angelou - Quotes<br>
slide6. STILL I RISE https://youtu.be/qviM_GnJbOM<br>
slide9. Still I Rise ‘Still I Rise’ is a poem by the American poet Maya Angelou (1928-2014), published in her 1978 collection And Still I Rise.
A kind of protest poem which is defiant as well as celebratory, ‘Still I Rise’ is about the power of the human spirit to overcome discrimination and hardship, with Angelou specifically reflecting her attitudes as a black American woman.<br>
slide10. Summary and Analysis Beginning with a pointed and direct reference to ‘you’ to capture our attention. Although people may seek to belittle her, Angelou asserts that, even if she is trodden (beaten) into the dirt, like the dust rising from someone’s boot, she, too, will rise and will not be defeated.
Maya Angelou’s work is about the importance of not being defeated by the obstacles and challenges life throws at you.
Despite these hardships Maya Angelou consistently highlights the positive and inspirational aspects of humanity, and ‘Still I Rise’ is one of her best-known poems which shows the positive qualities within humans.
When read by victims of wrongdoing, the poem becomes a kind of anthem, a beacon of hope for the oppressed.<br>
slide11. What is the message of Still I Rise? 'Still I Rise' is primarily about self-respect and confidence. In the poem, Angelou reveals how she will overcome anything through her self-esteem. She shows how nothing can get her down. She will rise to any occasion, and nothing, not even her skin color, will hold her back.<br>
slide12. Analysis questions What is the theme of this poem? Choose one image from this poem and discuss how it relates to that theme.
Identify two poetic techniques in this poem. Explain how the use of these language techniques add to the poem.
* Use PIE Method to answer<br>