AFRICAN-AMERICAN POETRY ACTIVITY

DIRECTIONS:

1. USE THE PROVIDED LINK TO FIND A POEM WRITTEN BY A FAMOUS AFRICAN-AMERICAN POET.

  • *Langston Hughes

  • Tupac Shakur

  • Maya Angelou

  • Claude McKay

  • Alice Walker

  • Lucille Clifton

  • Countee Cullen

  • etc…



USE THIS LINK TO FIND A POEM BY AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN POET

TUPAC POETRY LINK 1

TUPAC POETRY LINK 2

2. ONCE YOU FIND A POEM YOU LIKE, COPY IT DOWN ON NOTEBOOK PAPER.

3. ONCE COPIED DOWN, LOCATE AT LEAST 3 DIFFERENT INSTANCES OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE/POETRY TERMS (hyperbole, alliteration, assonance, simile, metaphor, etc…)

a. If you forget these poetry terms, use the “Poetry Terms & Examples”

Study Guide handout I gave you.