GARY SOTO'S "4 POEMS" [Lesson Activities & Poems]

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This Gary Soto "4 Poems" [Lesson Activities and Poems] product provides students a chance to experience a variety of topics that cause reflection. 4 of Soto's popular poems, 20+ discussion questions/essay prompts, a sample LITERARY & ANALYSIS Chart, LESSON ACTIVITIES, Black & White Versions, quizzes, and a Biography. These poems allow students to read and analyze these poems of literary merit. 9th - 12th Graders will love this product. Check it out!

Summary:

Gary Soto was born in Fresno, California, on April 12, 1952, to working-class Mexican-American parents. As a teenager and college student, he worked in the fields of the San Joaquin Valley, chopping beets and cotton and picking grapes. He was not academically motivated as a child, but he became interested in poetry during his high school years.

This 9th - 12th grade canonized set of poems allows students to understand society and the need to reflect.

Poems Included:

1. "Telephones from the 50s"

2. "Mexicans Begin Jogging"

3. "What Now?"

4. "How Things Work"

This Product Includes:

1. Who is Gary Soto? Written/Video Biography

2. Each poem has 5 -8 Discussion Questions [32 questions]

3. Soto Visual Poetry

4. Literary and Participation Chart [Blank & Printable]

5. Group Poem Presentations

6. Soto's Protégé and much more

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to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).
Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.
Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of the text.
Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.
Analyze a case in which grasping point of view requires distinguishing what is directly stated in a text from what is really meant (e.g., satire, sarcasm, irony, or understatement).
Analyze multiple interpretations of a story, drama, or poem (e.g., recorded or live production of a play or recorded novel or poetry), evaluating how each version interprets the source text.

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