Day 5

Citizen: An American Lyric Lesson Plan

Reading Assignment, Questions, Vocabulary

Read Section VII.

Common Core Objectives

  1. 1

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.5

  2. 2

    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.11-12.6

Note that it is perfectly fine to expand any day’s work into two days depending on the characteristics of the class, particularly if the class will engage in all of the suggested classroom exercises and activities and discuss all of the thought questions.

Content Summary for Teachers

Section VII

Section VII is the last section in Citizen. Most of it is in a more traditional poetic form. At times, “you” feels she can struggle through or above the ache (this is reminiscent of the headache mentioned previously). “You” struggles in this poem on the levels of memory and...

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