2. Go back and study the picture.
Close Reading of an Image: L. O. Students will view a photograph and poem and describe in detail what they see and read.
When we go back to the picture, let’s say details that you see in the picture, and then you will write them down.
What colors?¨
What shapes?
What textures?
What kind of lines?
What patterns?
Go back and study the picture.

3. Now you write down details from the picture.
Colors
Shapes
Objects
Lines
Textures
Patterns
What’s the story in the picture?
What do you wonder about the picture?
How does the picture make you feel?

4. Close Reading of a Poem.1 “Literary Analysis requires that one not only read the text, but look closely at what the author is saying as well as how the author is saying it.
“When close reading, it is important to look at the small details and understand how they work together in the piece to create meaning.”
1. “Close Reading of Poetry and Fiction.”

5. Close Reading. Look for: Repeated images, words or ideas
Words or phrases that jump out as important
Words or phrases that can be interpreted in more than one way
Irony or ambiguity
Passages you don’t understand
Figurative language

6. Mankind Does Not Agree by Gordon J.L. Ramel
I have no use for birds in cages, 

but mankind does not agree; 

they’ve been jailing them for ages 

and they just don’t seem to see 

that the beauty that inspired, inevitably fades, 

and what once was writ in diamonds 

Wings are made for flying, 

for dancing with the air, 

and wings that cannot open 

are the color of despair, 

and an anger in me rages 

and I long to set them free, 

but it’s the sadness of the ages 

that mankind does not agree.

7. Reading and Responding
Read the poem.
Underline phrases you wonder about or find interesting in the poem.
Write 3-5 sentences about what you underlined.
Exchange your writing with a partner.
Read what your partner wrote, and make a comment or ask questions about what your partner wrote.
With the whole class, share what your partner wrote and how you responded.
Whole Class Share of our thoughts about the poem.

8. Big Ideas-Essential Questions (EQs)
Reflect on your details and wonderings,
What big ideas does this picture raise for you?
What essential questions?
Possibilities
Taming Nature, Intelligent Animals
EQs:
Should we tame wild animals?
Can birds think and feel?
Other

9. Day 2. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange sun’s rays and dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing.

10. The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom. The free bird thinks of another breeze and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn And he names the sky his own.

11. But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing. The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom.

12. Close Reading.
Look for:
Repetition: Repeated images, words or ideas
Words or phrases that jump out as important
Words or phrases that can be interpreted in more than one way
Irony or ambiguity
Passages you don’t understand
Figurative language
Big Ideas-Essential Questions (EQs)  

13. Reading and Responding
Read the poem.
Underline phrases you wonder about or find interesting in the poem.
Write 3-5 sentences about what you underlined.
Exchange your writing with a partner.
Read what your partner wrote, and make a comment or ask questions about what your partner wrote.
With the whole class, share what your partner wrote and how you responded.
Whole Class Share of our thoughts about the poem.

14. Big Ideas-Essential Questions (EQs)
Reflect on your details and wonderings,
What big ideas does this picture raise for you?
What essential questions does “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings raise for you?
Big Ideas
Essential Questions

15. Compare and Contrast
L. O. Students will devise categories for comparing and contrasting two poems, “Mankind Does Not Agree” and “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.”
When you compare and contrast, you have to compare and contrast like things, such as Author’s Purpose, Big Idea, Essential Questions, Point of View, Problem, Questions the poem raises.

16. L. O. Students will complete a graphic organizer comparing and contrasting the Big Ideas, Essential Questions, Point of View, Author’s Purpose, Problems, Questions raised in two poems about birds.
Compare and Contrast how “Mankind Does Not Agree” and “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” How are they alike and how are they different?
Author’s Point of View (1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person, 3rd person omniscient narrator)
Provide proof. Does the poet use pronouns?
Main Idea
Hint- Big Idea
Relevant Essential Question(s)
Author’s Purpose

17. Relevant Magnet Standards
Compare and Contrast how “Mankind Does Not Agree” and “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” How are they alike and how are they different?
Relevant Magnet Standards
Sustainability, Sense of Place, Activism, Inquiry, Careers, Technology
Mankind Does Not Agree
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Students investigate how to balance human needs and natural laws.
Activism.
Inquiry
Does the author present a problem?
What questions do the poems raise for you?

18. Day Three – Teen Biz Articles - How smart are birds. L. O
Day Three – Teen Biz Articles - How smart are birds? L. O. Students will read and respond to multiple choice questions based on a non-fiction article on birds.
Go to
Log-on
Search “birds.”
Available articles to assign.
Animals Can Dance! Scientists have found that some animals can dance. (3rd story down on search page)
Bird Brains? Not These Birds! How smart are birds? Some people tried to find out. (4th story down on search page)
Have You Heard? Don’t Mess With Mockingbirds! Can mockingbirds recognize people? Some researchers say yes.
(5th story down on search page)

19. Extended Learning PBS Nature Episode- A Murder of Crows
Go to:
New research has shown that they are among the most intelligent animals on the planet. Read text, watch introduction, take notes. 


20. Day 4 – Group Work 


21. Sources
Picture of bird. Photograph: Crested Caracara by Mark Willocks (USA). [December 17, 2010].
Ramel, Gordon J. L., “Mankind Does Not Agree.” Ecology.info “where the world goes for information about ecology.” [December 17, 2010].
Ohio State University at Lima Writing Center. “Close Reading of Poetry and Fiction” [December 17, 2010].
Teen Biz, Achieve Animals in Action.
[December 17, 2010].