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Lesson 1 (from Pages 1-58)
Objective
Students will conduct an exhaustive analysis of the opening lines of Anderson's poetry memoir SHOUT and will use the information they uncover to make predictions about the text.
The first line of the poetry memoir SHOUT is a jaw-dropping one, inspiring great curiosity and horror within the mind of its reader. The first stanza of the memoir’s first poem, entitled “in the name of love,” reads, “When he was eighteen years old, my father/saw his buddy’s head sliced into two pieces,/sawn just above the eyebrows by an exploding/brake drum, when he was in the middle/of telling a joke” (7). An investigation of the poetry memoir's opening stanza and of the famous lines of other texts within the literary canon will deepen students' understanding of the importance of a literary work's first line.
Lesson
Class Discussion: What was your reaction when you...
Aligned to the following Common Core Standards:
- ELA-Reading: Literature RL.9-10.1, 9-10.10, 11-12.1, 11-12.3, 11-12.10
- ELA-Writing W.9-10.1(c), 11-12.1(c)
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