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Lesson 1 (from Part I (Introduction - The Red Caboose, XI - 51))
Objective
The objective of this Daily Lesson is to analyze Broome's choice to use Gwendolyn Brooks's 1959 poem "We Real Cool" as the main title headings for the different sections of this memoir. After the Introduction and before the main text, Broome includes the entirety of this short poem, whose message is an ironic one. Brooks, through a first-person plural narration, conveys to the reader through this poem that a group of young people think they are "cool" by leaving school, drinking, and carousing, but the last line is punch to the gut: "We Die soon."
Lesson
Class Discussion: Why do you think Broome chooses to begin his memoir with "We Real Cool" and then label his main sections of the book with lines from the poem? What is the main theme or message of this poem? How does the theme of this poem relate to Broome's own...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.2, 9-10.3, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.2, 11-12.3, 11-12.10
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