Students should read the following poems, written between 1941 and 1950:
"Harlem Sweeties"
"50-50"
"Life is Fine"
"American Heartbreak"
"This Puzzles Me"
Common Core Objectives
- 1
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.1
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text. - 2
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.2
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text. - 3
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used...
