lesson 6. 1.debrief 2.“we real cool” by gwendolyn brooks ~structure today’s agenda

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Page 1: Lesson 6. 1.Debrief 2.“We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks ~Structure Today’s Agenda

Lesson 6

Page 2: Lesson 6. 1.Debrief 2.“We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks ~Structure Today’s Agenda

1. Debrief2. “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks

~Structure

Today’s Agenda

Page 3: Lesson 6. 1.Debrief 2.“We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks ~Structure Today’s Agenda

What did you learn in the lab? How are your test scores? Your GPA? Any requirements for college you didn’t know

beforehand? Should you change your life plan?

Computer Lab Debriefing

Page 4: Lesson 6. 1.Debrief 2.“We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks ~Structure Today’s Agenda

THE POOL PLAYERS. SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.

We real cool. We Left school. We

Lurk late. We Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We Die soon.

~Gwendolyn Brooks, 1959

Page 5: Lesson 6. 1.Debrief 2.“We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks ~Structure Today’s Agenda

THE POOL PLAYERS. SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.

We real cool. We Left school. We

Lurk late. We Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We Die soon.

Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool” from Selected Poems. Copyright © 1963 by Gwendolyn Brooks. Reprinted with the permission of the Estate of Gwendolyn Brooks.

“We Real Cool” In Her Own Words

What do we learn from the subtitle?

Why bookend with “we”?

Diction - “lurk” and “strike”?Infer because they “lurk late”? “strike

straight”?

Why “sing”? How is “thin” used?

“jazz June”??

Page 6: Lesson 6. 1.Debrief 2.“We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks ~Structure Today’s Agenda

We real cool. We left school. We lurk late We strike straight. We sing sin. We thin gin. We jazz June. We die soon.

How does the sound of the poem change? How do the pace and rhythm of the poem

change? How does the tone of the poem change? Are any elements of the poem lost when the lines

are presented in "natural" sounding sentences?

Form and Structure

Page 7: Lesson 6. 1.Debrief 2.“We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks ~Structure Today’s Agenda

Form and Structure

THE POOL PLAYERS. SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL. We real cool. We left school. We lurk late.We strike straight.We sing sin. We thin gin. We jazz June. We die soon.

How does the sound of the poem change?

How do the pace and rhythm of the poem change?

How does the tone of the poem change?

Are any elements of the poem lost when the lines are presented in "natural" sounding sentences?

Is the prose poem as powerful as Brooks' version? Why or why not?

Page 8: Lesson 6. 1.Debrief 2.“We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks ~Structure Today’s Agenda

Write your own “We Real Cool” poem. Follow the structure of Brooks’s original.

“We” at the end of the line. Rhyme scheme. Single syllables.

Eight lines minimum. When people see you and your friends, what

would they say about your attitudes/mannerisms?

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