If all of the elements of this lesson plan are employed, students will develop the following powers, skills, and understanding:
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Students will be able to engage with the technical skills of Phillis Wheatley.
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Students will consider the relationship between Wheatley's work and her personal history.
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Students will consider the questions of justice that undergird the work of a poet who was enslaved.
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Students will engage with the multiple levels of meaning that exist in Wheatley's work.
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Students will consider the connection between June Jordan's critical work on Wheatley and Wheatley's poems themselves.
