LUIS RODRIGUEZ'S "2 POEMS" [Lesson Activities & Poems]
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This Luis Rodriguez "2 Poems" [Lesson Activities and Poems] product provides students a chance to experience a variety of topics that cause reflection. 2 of Rodriguez's popular poems, 18 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:
In 1954, Luis J. Rodríguez was born in El Paso, Texas. He grew up in Watts and the East Los Angeles area, where his family faced poverty and discrimination. A gang member and drug user at the age of twelve, by the time he turned eighteen, Rodríguez had lost twenty-five of his friends to gang violence, drug overdoses, shootings, and suicide. He wrote two autobiographical accounts of his experiences with gang violence and addiction, It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing (Touchstone, 2012), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, and Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. (Curbstone Books, 1993), winner of the Carl Sandburg Award of the Friends of the Chicago Public Library.
This 9th - 12th grade canonized set of poems allows students to understand life and love and the need to reflect.
Poems Included:
1. "Love Poem to Los Angeles"
2. "Tia Chucha"
This Product Includes:
1. Who is Luis Rodriguez? Written/Video Biography
2. Each poem has 5 - 8 Discussion Questions [24 questions]
3. Rodriguez Visual Poetry
4. Literary and Participation Chart [Blank & Printable]
5. Group Poem Presentations
6. Talking Back and much more
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