1st meeting
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The document discusses Nikki Giovanni's poem about her favorite things about summer, including eating foods from her family's garden like corn, okra, greens, and cabbage. She also enjoys listening to gospel music and going to church events and the mountains with her grandmother. The speaker loves being barefoot and warm all the time in summer, unlike other seasons. Students are asked to name foods and activities from the poem and choose extending the poem with a different speaker or writing their own poem.
1st meeting
- 1. 1st meeting TODAYS LECTURE: POINT OF VIEW IN POETRY Nikki Giovanni Knoxville, Tennessee I always like summer best you can eat fresh corn from daddys garden and okra and greens and cabbage and lots of barbecue and buttermilk and homemade ice-cream at the church picnic and listen to gospel music outside at the church homecoming and go to the mountains with your grandmother and go barefooted and be warm all the time not only when you go to bed and sleep Study Questions 1. Name five foods that the speaker associates with summer. 2. Name three of her favorite summer activities. 3. What can the speaker be all the time in summer that she cannot be the rest of the year? Extention Choose one of the following task. 1. a. Change that poem with the different speaker (parent, friend, teacher, etc.). b. consequently, he/she will have the different feeling and or favorite food/activities with the previous speaker. 2. Make your own poem: a. choose a speaker b. mention the speakers favorite place/ time/ activities, etc.