7th Grade ELA NYS Common Core Curriculum Module 3, Unit 1

1. DO NOW
Take out homework on “Harriet Tubman”
poem
Use it to complete today’s Entry Task
(6 questions)

2. Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman didn't take no stuff
Wasn't scared of nothing neither
Didn't come in this world to be no slave
And wasn't going to stay one either

3. "Farewell!" she sang to her friends one night
5
She was mighty sad to leave 'em
But she ran away that dark, hot night
Ran looking for her freedom
She ran to the woods and she ran through the
woods With the slave catchers right behind her
10
And she kept on going till she got to the North

4. Nineteen times she went back South
To get three hundred others
She ran for her freedom nineteen times
15
To save Black sisters and brothers
Harriet Tubman didn't take no stuff
Wasn't scared of nothing neither
Didn't come in this world to be no slave
And didn't stay one either
20

5. Slavery
Learning Objectives
I can analyze the impact of rhyme and
repetition in a specific section of poetry.
I can determine the figurative meaning of
words and phrases in a poem.
I can analyze how a poem’s structure
contributes to its meaning.

6. Slavery
Narrative of Frederick Douglass
POETRY TEST!!!!!
• “We Wear the Mask” by Paul Laurence
Dunbar
• Friend of Douglass
• Born after Civil War to freed slaves
• Let’s read it together…
• Can use on test:
• Poetry Toolbox

7. We Wear the Mask
We wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes, This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile
And mouth with myriad subtleties,
Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.
We smile, but oh great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile,
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!

8. Slavery
Narrative of Frederick Douglass
Exit Ticket!
1. What did you learn about slavery from
the poems today?
2. What part of reading the poem was a
struggle?
3. What part of reading the poem was
easier for you?

9. Slavery
Narrative of Frederick Douglass
Homework
Independent Reading Book…
check-in is coming soon.
** If you finish the test, get reading! **