DO NOW: In the box below, create a thought map with the word identity in the center. Branch out and add aspects of life, ideas, and experiences you believe are crucial to your identity (who you are). Is having a family attached to your ~ identity? What about your friends? Where you're from? Creative expression? Continue to expand your thought map. until you believe it paints an accurate representation of your identity. ‘Suit Maya Angelou, 1928 - 2014 You may write me down ini With your biter, twisted les, You may trod me in the very dirt But stil ike dust, rise. | \ | Sorspovaneine opto | Why are you beset with glaom? ‘cause walkie Fve got oils urpingin my tving room | Jus tke moons and ke suns, With the certainty of ties, Just ke hopes singing high, Seilirse | | Bowed head and lowered eyes? ‘Shoulders falling down lke teardrops, | ‘Weakened by my soulful cries? | ows my haughtiness offend you? Don't you take it awful hard “cause laugh like I've got gold mines Diggin’ in my own backyard, 224 outorthe husottistor’sshame JB ‘You may shoot me with your words, You may eut me with your eas, You may lll me with your hatefulness, But sil, Uke ar, se. Does it come asa surprise ‘That dance lke Ive got dlamands At the meating of my thighs? Tse - Up foma past thats rootedin ain (Tp) ise teva black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and sweling | bear in Fe tide. | | | nights obbareonand ae | Tse Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear | Tree | Acnging the gifts that my ancestors gave, | |amthe dream and he hope heslave | Tse j ise | tree |Name Date Period About the Author: Maya Angelou was a famous poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker and civil rights activist. Angelou experienced the brutality of racial discrimination as a youth. She became active with Malcolm X in the civil rights movement and helped him build his Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU). Throughout her life, she overcame hardship and discrimination to find her own voice and to influence others to believe in themselves and use their voices for positive change. 1. How does the speaker/narrator seem to feel about herself? Draw a face that represents that emotion (e.., a smiley face, sad face or angry face) next to a word phrase that exhibits it. Have you ever felt that way about yourself? Tihak tet OURO ECeTS yO. TQ Gra Ch DOS AOS OOHAT vy Nok Wek 2. To whom do you think the poem is directed? Highlight words and phrases that support your answers. List the war below. Explain how these words tell us who the poem is about. Fork tat weary 3. What message is the writer trying to give to the person ar group to which she is writing? Have you ever had togivea similar message to someone? If so, when? 4, What do you believe the poem's overall theme (what the poem is about) is? Examples include hopelessness, strength, resiliency, spirit and anger. Write the theme you have identified at the top of the poem. Then draw an arrow 10 2 word or phrase from the poem that supports that theme. Label the word or phrase #4. Explain your reasoning below.