My poem is “The Mothering Blackness” by Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri and died May 28, 2014. She was raised in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas. Maya Angelou is a dancer, singer activist for the civil rights, and songwriter. Maya Angelou had lived through the era where segregation was still heavily there in the south. The poem I will read talks about a black woman just coming back from work and she is trying to get home walking in the dark. The poem connects with her because she must have experienced this at after work walking home trying to get there as fast as you could because it wasn't safe. The hate the she experiences every day when she steps out of her house, it’s the same struggle that Maya experienced as a black woman when she stepped out of her home. The poem explains how she came home running from her hard job. She feels safer with people who love her and care for her then the world that hates her because of her skin tone. I plan to read my poem with emphasizes and take pauses. I will also have different tones while I read.
The plan I have for my tone is for the first part of my poem with a fearful, scared and hash tone. The second part I will read it calm and happy since, it talks about how happy she is to come home. The last part I will read it with satisfaction and bravery because the last part explains that she doesn't blame herself for the life she lives. She is proud of her brown gorgeous skin she is blessed with. I'm going for a four so I will memorize the entire poem. The way I will achieve a four is I will use hand gestures for the parts that have a hard hit on me, for example the parts I will emphasize. I will also use facial expression to express and connect it with the poem and my tone. My eye contact will also help me with a four I will look at everyone in the class so I know i'm keeping my eye contact. I'm gonna try not to stare at the wall or at the ceiling. Here is a vocabulary I don't understand in my poem: Befrost- fancier word for frosting Sentence- As it kept snowing the befrost was getting all in her hair. "BIOGRAPHY." Caged Bird Legacy. Web. 02 Feb. 2017.
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Ms. D'Urso
2/6/2017 09:03:43 am
Really strong post! You've made strong connections to author's choices.
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