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Single poet study: Maya Angelou

Year 8 • English
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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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