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In Holt Literature and Language Arts, you read “Brother,” from Maya Angelou’s autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. In the selections you are about to read, you will learn more about the experiences that made Maya Angelou the extraordinary individual she is today. In the biographical essay “Maya Angelou,” Joyce Hansen gives us a sense of the events that shaped Angelou’s life. Angelou’s poem “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me” presents a more sub- jective viewpoint. “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me” exists as a personal statement in which Angelou herself tells us how she’s managed to overcome the fears that otherwise might have beaten her down. Marguerite Johnson, who became known as Maya Angelou, was born on April 4, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri. She and her brother, Bailey, were raised by their grandmother, the owner of a country store in Stamps, Arkansas. During her lifetime, Angelou struggled to overcome many difficult circumstances, a process she believes made her strong. The events of her life became known to millions through the 1970 publication of her autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which was nominated for a National Book Award and later used as the basis for a TV movie. How did you become you? What are the circumstances that helped shape you? Who are the individuals who changed your life? This biographical essay provides a sketch of the experiences that formed Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou 195 Reading Standard 3.5 Identify the speaker, and recognize the difference between first- and third-person narration (for example, autobiography compared with biography).

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Page 1: Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. · PDF fileIn Holt Literature and Language Arts,you read “Brother,” from Maya Angelou’sautobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird

In Holt Literature and Language Arts, you read

“Brother,” from Maya Angelou’s autobiography I Know

Why the Caged Bird Sings. In the selections you

are about to read, you will learn more about the

experiences that made Maya Angelou the extraordinary individual

she is today.

In the biographical essay “Maya Angelou,” Joyce Hansen gives us a

sense of the events that shaped Angelou’s life.

Angelou’s poem “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me” presents a more sub-

jective viewpoint. “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me” exists as a personal

statement in which Angelou herself tells us how she’s managed to

overcome the fears that otherwise might have beaten her down.

Marguerite Johnson, who became known as Maya Angelou, was

born on April 4, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri. She and her brother,

Bailey, were raised by their grandmother, the owner of a country

store in Stamps, Arkansas.

During her lifetime, Angelou struggled to overcome many difficult

circumstances, a process she believes made her strong. The events of

her life became known to millions through the 1970 publication of

her autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which was

nominated for a National Book Award and later used as the basis for

a TV movie.

How did you become you? What are the circumstances that helped

shape you? Who are the individuals who changed your life? This

biographical essay provides a sketch of the experiences that formed

Maya Angelou.

Maya Angelou 195

ReadingStandard 3.5Identify thespeaker, andrecognize thedifferencebetween first-and third-personnarration (forexample, autobiographycompared withbiography).

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“I was mute for five years,” Maya Angelou has said. “I

wasn’t cute and I didn’t speak. . . . But my grandma told me

all the time, ‘Sister, Mama don’t care what these people say

about you being a moron, being a idiot. Mama don’t care.

Mama know, Sister, when you and the good Lord get ready,

you’re gonna be a preacher.’ ”

In I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, the first of her

five autobiographies, Maya Angelou begins to chronicle her

life. She was a little girl with a poet’s heart. But when she

was seven, her song was silenced by a terrible experience

and she stopped speaking. With the help of her grand-

mother who raised her in Stamps, Arkansas, the close-knit

black community there, and a perceptive teacher who rec-

ognized her literary gifts and introduced her to literature,

Maya found her voice again. She graduated from her

segregated school at the top of her eighth-grade class.

She left Arkansas at thirteen to go to California to live

with her mother. By sixteen, she had a child of her own to

raise. “The greatest gift I’ve ever had was the birth of my

son. . . . When he was small, I knew more than he did, I

expected to be his teacher. So because of him I educated

myself. When he was four . . . I taught him to read. But

then he’d ask questions, and I didn’t have the answers, so I

started my lifelong love affair with libraries. . . .”

She also refused to be controlled by a society that

defined her as inferior because she was black and female.

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Joyce Hansen

196 Biography and Autobiography: Looking at LivesChapter 5

As you begin to read theessay, circle the pronouns Iand she. Ask yourself: Whomdo these pronouns refer to?What is this person’s relation-ship to the subject of theessay?

perceptive (p¥r•sep√tiv) adj.:able to comprehend throughinsight or intuition.

segregated (seg√r¥•g†t≈id)adj.: set apart or separatedaccording to race.

“Maya Angelou” from Women of Hope: African Americans Who Made a Difference by Joyce Hansen.Copyright © 1998 by Joyce Hansen. Reprinted by permission of Scholastic Press, a division of Scholastic Inc.

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“I decided many years ago to invent myself. I had

obviously been invented by someone else—by a whole

society—and I didn’t like their invention.” Maya Angelou

redefined herself. When she was in her twenties, she studied

dance and was in a musical that toured Europe and Africa.

Angelou also used her talents to try to help make the world

a better place. In 1960, she and another performer wrote,

produced, and appeared in the revue Cabaret for Freedom

to raise money for the civil rights movement. She also

spent time in Ghana, West Africa, working as a journalist in

the 1960s. She has written, produced, directed, and acted in

theater, movie, and television productions. She was nomi-

nated for an Emmy Award for her performance in the

television miniseries Roots and was nominated for the

Pulitzer Prize in poetry. Maya Angelou also has twelve

honorary doctorates.

Millions of Americans saw and heard her recite her

poem “On the Pulse of Morning” for President Clinton’s

inauguration in 1993.

The message she brings through the example of her

life and her art is clear. “All of my work is meant to say,

you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be

defeated.”

Maya Angelou continues to rise, and we soar with her.

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40

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Maya Angelou 197

redefined (r≤≈d≤•f¢nd√) v.:changed the nature of;reinvented.

Redefined is used in an un-usual way here. Draw a boxaround the context clue inline 29 that helps you figureout the sense in which theword redefined is used.

inauguration(in•ôg≈y¥•r†√◊¥n) n.:ceremony that signifies theformal or official beginningof the president’s term.

Underline the activitiesAngelou has participated in,as well as the jobs or careersshe has had. These detailsconvey some important lifedecisions that Angelou hasmade. What do these detailsreveal about Angelou?

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Shadows on the wall

Noises down the hall

Life doesn’t frighten me at all

Bad dogs barking loud

Big ghosts in a cloud

Life doesn’t frighten me at all.

Mean old Mother Goose

Lions on the loose

They don’t frighten me at all

Dragons breathing flame

On my counterpane

That doesn’t frighten me at all.

I go boo

Make them shoo

I make fun

Way they run

I won’t cry

So they fly

I just smile

They go wild

Life doesn’t frighten me at all.

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Maya Angelou

198 Biography and Autobiography: Looking at LivesChapter 5

Read the boxed stanzasilently at first, circling wordsyou think are most impor-tant. Then, read the stanzaaloud. Where will you pause?

The word counterpane inline 11 means “bedspread.”This word is rarely used anymore.

• • • • • • Notes • • • • • •

Why do you think the speaker calls Mother Goose“mean” (line 7)?

“Life Doesn’t Frighten Me” from And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou. Copyright © 1978 by Maya Angelou.Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.

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Tough guys in a fight

All alone at night

Life doesn’t frighten me at all.

Panthers in the park

Strangers in the dark

No, they don’t frighten me at all.

That new classroom where

Boys pull all my hair

(Kissy little girls

With their hair in curls)

They don’t frighten me at all.

Don’t show me frogs and snakes

And listen for my scream.

If I’m afraid at all

It’s only in my dreams.

I’ve got a magic charm

That I keep up my sleeve,

I can walk the ocean floor

And never have to breathe.

Life doesn’t frighten me at all

Not at all

Not at all

Life doesn’t frighten me at all.

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Maya Angelou 199

How old do you think thenarrator of this poem is? Doyou think this speaker is thepoet or someone else?

What do you think thespeaker means by “kissy littlegirls” (line 30)?

Do you think that, despite allher brave remarks, this littlegirl is not really so brave?

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200 Biography and Autobiography: Looking at LivesChapter 5

Biography/Poem Write a few sentences telling how the biographical

essay and the poem work together to provide you with a sense of

who Maya Angelou is.

Personal Word List Record the words you learned from the essay in

your Personal Word List.

Personal Reading Log As you record this selection in your Personal

Reading Log, write a few sentences explaining which of the pieces

you liked better. Award yourself 1 point on the Reading Meter

for reading these selections.

Checklist for Standards Mastery Check your progress in recognizing

first-person and third-person narration. Use the Checklist for

Standards Mastery in the back of this book to track your progress in

mastering the standards.

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Graphic Organizer 201

Interview Questions

Maya Angelou; Life Doesn’t Frighten Me Interactive Reading, page 196

Go Beyond Literary Texts

Author “Interview” Think about what you know of Maya Angelouand what you’d like to find out. Then write a list of interview questionsthat you would prepare if you had the opportunity to meet her.

A good interview contains a mix of question types. Avoid askingquestions that can be answered by a simple “yes” or “no” or bysimple research.

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Chapter 5 61

DIFFERENTIATING INSTRUCTION

Maya Angelou;Life Doesn’t Frighten Me

� Learners Having DifficultyHave students preview the twoselections. You may wish tohave them listen to the poem“Life Doesn’t Frighten Me”read aloud on the Audio CD.The poem is easily accessibleto these learners.

� Benchmark Students Engagestudents’ interest in “MayaAngelou” by having them readthe direct quotations fromMaya Angelou while you readHansen’s narration describingthe writer’s life.

� Advanced Students For thepoem “Life Doesn’t FrightenMe,” invite each student tocopy a part of the poem andillustrate it with the things that“don’t frighten” Angelou.Afterward, display the artwork.Note that the poem has beenpublished as a picture book.

TEACHER TO TEACHER

To help students understand therelationship between the twoselections, group students intopairs. Have each student choosea passage to read aloud and to“Say Something” about. Onestudent should choose a passagefrom the Hansen essay; theother student should choose apassage from the poem. Then,see if students can connectdetails in the essay with detailsin the poem.

Build Independence Through Interactive Selections (Interactive Reading, pages 195–221)

Maya AngelouJoyce Hansen � page 196

Life Doesn’t Frighten MeMaya Angelou � page 198

� Tell students that they are going to read a brief biographical essayon Maya Angelou, along with Angelou’s poem “Life Doesn’tFrighten Me.”

� Invite a volunteer to read the Author Study and Before You Readaloud. Have students share what they know about segregation inthe United States in the 1950s.

� Have students locate and read the first note on Interactive Readingpage 196. Point out that by circling pronouns that appear in thepiece, students will be able to identify the narrator’s point of view.

� Have the class work independently to read “Maya Angelou” and“Life Doesn’t Frighten Me.” Remind students to “Say Something”as they move along.

� As students complete these selections, have them add their com-ments to their Personal Reading Logs.

� You may photocopy and have students complete the “SaySomething” Chart in Section Three of the Teacher’s Edition toevaluate students’ understanding of the selections.

� Use the Vocabulary Check on page 66 and Comprehension Checkon page 67 of the Teacher’s Edition to evaluate students’ mastery ofthe standards.

� Assign the Author “Interview” project on Interactive Reading page201 as an extension activity.

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66 Interactive Reading

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Vocabulary CheckVocabulary CheckMaya Angelou andLife Doesn’t Frighten Me � Interactive Reading, page 196

Reading Standard 1.4 Monitor expository text for unknownwords or words with novel meanings by using word, sentence, andparagraph clues to determine meaning.

A. Words in ContextUse the vocabulary words above to complete this paragraph. Use each word only once.

As an African American in the 1930s, Maya Angelou attended

(1) _______________ schools. With the help of a (2) _______________ woman

named Mrs. Flowers, who sensed her talents, Angelou triumphed over a childhood

tragedy. Angelou (3) _______________ herself several times by changing careers;

she became a major literary figure with the publication of her autobiography I Know

Why the Caged Bird Sings. One of the triumphs of her life was being invited to write

and read a poem for the (4) _______________ of President Bill Clinton in 1993.

B. Sentence CompletionComplete each sentence by writing the vocabulary word that makes the most sensein it.

1. Maya Angelou grew up in poverty. She _______________ her-self by becoming a world-famous writer.

2. “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me” is about a _______________child’s coming to grips with a frightening world.

3. Angelou’s life proves that being raised in a _______________world was not always a barrier to someone with talent andconvictions.

4. The first poet to be invited to recite a poem at a presidential_______________ was Robert Frost in 1961.

able to comprehend through insight or intuition

set apart or separated, according to race or gender

changed the nature of; reinvented

ceremony that signifies the formal or official begin-ning of the President’s term

perceptive, adjective

segregated, adjective

redefined, verb

inauguration, noun

Vocabulary DevelopmentVocabulary Development

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Name ______________________________ Class _____________ Date _____________

Comprehension CheckComprehension CheckMaya Angelou andLife Doesn’t Frighten Me� Interactive Reading, page 196

Reading Standard 3.5 Identify the speaker, and recognize thedifference between first- and third-person narration.

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A. Circle the letter of the best response to each item.

1. “Maya Angelou” is a biographical essay written by— A Jane Hansen C Rosa ParksB Maya Angelou D Angelou’s grandmother

2. Which quote from “Maya Angelou” is a direct quote from Maya Angelouherself?F “She was a little girl with a poet’s heart.”G “She refused to be controlled by a society that defined her as inferior

because she was black and female.”H “I decided years ago to invent myself.”J “Maya Angelou continues to rise, and we soar with her.”

3. The speaker in “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me” is—A a little girl C Joyce HansenB the adult Maya Angelou D a teacher

B. Write two or three sentences that describe Joyce Hansen’s attitude toward hersubject, Maya Angelou.

story of a person’s life written by another person

story of a person’s life written by that person

person talking to us in a text; the narrator

biography

autobiography

speaker

Academic VocabularyAcademic Vocabulary

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Chapter 5

Practice Read: The PictureVocabulary Check, page 64

A: 1. realm 2. shelf3. gloss 4. pod 5. signature

B: 1. mirrorlike 2. shallow 3. adults, young ones 4. distinctive 5. territory

Comprehension Check, page 65A: 1. C

2. G 3. A

B: Passages will vary. Check to be sure the contentof the passage remains roughly the same.

Maya Angelou andLife Doesn’t Frighten MeVocabulary Check, page 66

A: 1. segregated 2. perceptive3. redefined 4. inauguration

B: 1. redefined 2. perceptive 3. segregated4. inauguration

Comprehension Check, page 67A: 1. A

2. H 3. A

B: Answers will vary, but the responses should indi-cate Hansen’s respect for Angelou.

What Is Stress?Vocabulary Check, page 68

A: 1. potentially 2. motivate 3. mobilized

B: 1. get ready to work together;respond

2. real chance 3. sit still; not respond

Comprehension Check, page 69A: 1. D

2. F 3. C

B: Answers will vary, but students should mentionone or more of the facts presented in “What IsStress?”

from Dear Mrs. ParksVocabulary Check, page 70

A: 1. stand 2. chronic 3. race 4. intolerable 5. harassments6. boycott7. domestic

B: 1. existed throughout 2. unbearable 3. doing nothing

Comprehension Check, page 71A: 1. D

2. H 3. B

B: Answers may vary widely. Students should useone or two specific details that people wouldenjoy knowing about.

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