Read the excerpt from "Pilgrimage.”At the museum, we marvel at their clothes— preserved under glass—so much smallerthan our own, as if those who wore them were only children. We sleep in their beds,the old mansions hunkered on the bluffs, draped in flowers—funereal—a blurof petals against the river’s gray. The brochure in my room calls thisliving history. The brass plate on the door reads Prissy’s Room. A window framesThe river’s crawl toward the Gulf. In my dream, The ghost of history lies down beside me,rolls over, pins me beneath a heavy arm.Pilgrimage, "Elegy for the Native Guards", "South" from Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey. Copyright (c) 2006 by Natasha Trethewey. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Read the excerpt from "One Generation Passeth Away and Another Cometh.”Vain bird, a while think what am I, Here entering ‘mid a hawk-like throng; Quickly hatched out, as quick to fly, And dare not tarry long.Where is the mighty and the stout, Who lived this fading world to crave; Left and forever gone without A stone to show their grave.Used with permission of the Chapel Hill Historical Society
Read the excerpt from "Like Brothers We Meet.”The soldier no longer shall roam, But soon shall land safely ashore, Each soon will arrive at his own native home, And struggle in warfare no more.The union of brothers is sweet, Whose wives and children do come, Their sons and fair daughters with pleasure they greet, When long absent fathers come home.Used with permission of the Chapel Hill Historical Society
Read the excerpt from "Pilgrimage.”Here, the Mississippi carved its mud-dark path, a graveyardFor skeletons of sunken riverboat. Here, the river changed its course, Turning away from the city as one turns, forgetting, from the past—The abandoned bluffs, land sloping up above the river’s bend—where nowThe Yazoo fills the Mississippi’s empty bed.Pilgrimage, "Elegy for the Native Guards", "South" from Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey. Copyright (c) 2006 by Natasha Trethewey. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Read "Like Brothers We Meet.”What does this poem express about the importance of family?
Read the excerpt from "Elegy for the Native Guards.”The Daughters of the Confederacyhas placed a plaque here, at the fort’s entrance—each Confederate soldier’s name raised hardin bronze; no names carved for the Native Guards—2nd Regiment, Union men, black phalanx.What is monument to their legacy?All the grave markers, all the crude headstones—water-lost. Now fish dart among their bones,as we listen for what the saves intone.Only the fort remains, near forty feet high,round, unfinished, half open to the sky,The elements—wind, rain,—God's deliberate eye."Native Guard" from Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey. Copyright (c) 2006 by Natasha Trethewey. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Read "On Liberty and Slavery” and "Duty.”How do these poems address the experience of oppression differently?
Read "The Southern Refugee.”What does this poem express about the individual’s search for home?
Read "The Southern Refugee” and "South.”How do both poems address the individual’s search for home?
Read "South.”What does this poem express about the individual’s search for home?
How are the themes of “We Wear the Mask” and "A Man Said to the Universe" similar?
Timothy walk to school everyday, and he lives four miles away.
Read the excerpt from "Gate A-4” by Naomi Shihab Nye.And I looked around that gate of late and weary ones and I thought, This is the world I want to live in. The shared world. Not a single person in that gate—once the crying of confusion stopped—seemed apprehensive about any other person. They took the cookies. I wanted to hug all those other women, too.(Naomi Shihab Nye, "Gate A-4" from Honeybee. Copyright © 2008 by Naomi Shihab Nye. Reprinted with permission. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED)
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The team raises most of their money at the bake sale.
Why is creating an outline an important step in writing a personal narrative?
Read the excerpt from "We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence Dunbar.(1) Why should the world be over-wise, (2) In counting all our tears and sighs? (3) Nay, let them only see us, while(4) We wear the mask.
Read the excerpt from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.When Mrs. Fairfax had bidden me a kind good-night, and I had fastened my door, gazed leisurely round, and in some measure effaced the eerie impression made by that wide hall, that dark and spacious staircase, and that long, cold gallery, by the livelier aspect of my little room, I remembered that, after a day of bodily fatigue and mental anxiety, I was now at last in safe haven. . . . My couch had no thorns in it that night; my solitary room no
Read the excerpt from Pericles’s funeral oration by Thucydides.To me it seems that the consummation which has overtaken these men shows us the meaning of manliness in its first revelation and in its final proof. Some of them, no doubt, had their faults; but what we ought to remember first is their gallant conduct against the enemy in defence of their native land. They have blotted out evil with good, and done more service to the common-wealth than they ever did harm in their private lives.
Read the excerpt from "Gate A-4” by Naomi Shihab Nye.We called her son, I spoke with him in English. I told him I would stay with his mother till we got on the plane and ride next to her. She talked to him. Then we called her other sons just for the fun of it. Then we called my dad and he and she spoke for a while in Arabic and found out of course they had ten shared friends. Then I thought just for the heck of it why not call some Palestinian poets I know and let them chat with her? This all to
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