Sample Lesson Plan – Close Reading English Close Reading “The Rider” page 61 Lesson Overview Depending on class needs‚ this close reading should take two to three days. In this two-day lesson‚ the teacher begins by having students read and annotate the selected passage individually or as part of a class oral reading. Students then work with vocabulary and story questions. On the second day‚ students re-read the passage with a partner. They check their annotations and answers. They work
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19 Varieties of Gazelle Naomi Shihab Nye’s 19 Varieties of Gazelle hits close to home. Although I do not look Muslim and have not dealt with the bashings that Americans have given to those that do‚ I appreciate the perspective she brings forth of the Arab world. Like her I am American born and do feel the pain of both sides. Nye opens the book with that fateful September 11th day‚ a tragedy which presented Americans with an excuse to demonize a culture about which they already harbored deep misunderstandings
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Political affairs in the Middle East have been greatly influencing the development of Arab-American literature. Political contexts provided an impetus for Arab-American writers to express political beliefs in their works and address the questions of identity‚ ideology‚ and other subjects connected to political actions. Most of the issues considered by writers and researchers of Arab-American literature can also be found in literatures of other “hyphenated” Americans. However‚ Arab-American literature
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Two countries is a beautiful poem by Naomi Shihab Nye. The poem is clearly inspired by the poet’s own life as she is a woman of two worlds: Palestine and America. Nye makes use of an extended metaphor throughout the piece‚ representing herself as skin. This is done in a double entendre sort of way‚ symbolizing a negative connotation in the first stanza and weaving its way into a positive meaning in the last. In the first part of the poem‚ skin is utilized for its description of being the exterior
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A young‚ innocent child was killed as a result of an Israeli attack. Yet this was not one of few attacks that have occurred‚ but one of many in Gaza by the Israeli military. In Naomi Shihab Nye’s poem "For Mohammed Zeid of Gaza‚ Age 15‚" she criticizes and inspires society to object and respond to the unrest and violence occurring in Gaza‚ through contrasting the bullet’s effects to those of stray objects and criticizing the bullet and how it is personified by many. Nye describes that a bullet can
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turning the modest flowers scarlet and loose.” –Peter Meinke Love Poem 8. “Their whisper rises from beneath the stones to fuse into a single… light.” – Yves Bonnefoy Passer-By‚ These are Words… 9. “He wanted to go inside them and live.” Naomi Shihab Nye Rain 10. “But listen harder‚ use your imagination…” – George Bradley At the Other End of the Telescope 11. “The sky was low‚ the sounding rain was falling dense and dark.” – C.S. Lewis The late Passenger 12. “Like a mountain
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poetry. The poems I chose for my anthology were ones that I had an instant connection with‚ but also had a deeper meaning. The five poems I selected were “Snow‚” by Louis Macneice‚ “Solitude‚” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox‚ “Burning the Old Year‚” by Naomi Shihab Nye‚ and “A Positive Change‚” by Seema Chowdhury. First‚ I narrowed my poem choices to a few every time by picking the ones that had short and catchy
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Langston Hughes‚ Paul Laurence Dunbar‚ Maya Angelou‚ and Naomi Shihab Nye were some of many poets who used their compositions to advocate for an ability to adapt and consider different viewpoints in order to help reform a somewhat discriminatory system of conventional thinking. Throughout all four poems‚ the four
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The Book Ruth by Ingunn Merete Børresen Ruth has 4 chapters. The first: Ruth remains loyal to Naomi. The second: Ruth gleans in Boaz’s field. The third: Ruth follow Naomi’s plan. The fourth: Ruth and Boaz are married. The book of Ruth is the Narrative of a love story‚ yet also has some important Genealogy. The timeline of this book is intertwined during the period of the Judges. The author was anonymous but some believe it was perhaps written by Samuel the prophet; however‚ it is unlikely
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racism/discrimination‚ and to show the dominance and power the Canadian government had attained over the Japanese. For example‚ Naomi places a dozen chicks‚ one by one‚ into a cage where a hen is kept. The hen immediately begins to brutally attack the chicks to death. “It consistently starts jabbing its beak down on them‚ deliberate as the needle on the sewing machine” (Kogawa 62-63). Naomi placing the yellow chicks into the cage represents the Japanese as they immigrate to Canada seeking for shelter and peace
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