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Single poet study: Maya Angelou

Practise the unit “Single poet study: Maya Angelou” (Year 8 English) by Oak National Academy, with a topic for each of its 20 lessons.

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20 topics

  1. An introduction to Maya Angelou's distinctive voice: ‘Life Doesn’t Frighten Me’
  2. Writing a poem inspired by Maya Angelou's 'Life Doesn't Frighten Me'
  3. Exploring Maya Angelou’s ‘Phenomenal Woman’
  4. Exploring Maya Angelou's figurative language in ‘Phenomenal Woman’
  5. Exploring Maya Angelou’s ‘Still I Rise’
  6. Performing Maya Angelou's ‘Still I Rise’
  7. Exploring Maya Angelou's 'Caged Bird'
  8. Performing Maya Angelou's ‘Caged Bird’
  9. Exploring Maya Angelou's 'Equality'
  10. Exploring Maya Angelou’s use of figurative language
  11. Maya Angelou’s influences: exploring ‘Sympathy’ by Paul Laurence Dunbar
  12. Exploring Maya Angelou's 'Woman Work'
  13. Exploring Maya Angelou’s ‘On the Pulse of the Morning’
  14. Exploring Maya Angelou's 'On Aging'
  15. Maya Angelou's poetic voice
  16. Analytical paragraphs: Maya Angelou’s poetic voice
  17. Finding my own voice: planning a poem inspired by Maya Angelou
  18. Finding my own voice: writing a poem inspired by Maya Angelou
  19. Refining poems: harmony and dissonance
  20. Finding my own voice: performing a poem

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