Bring Maya Angelou’s powerful reflections on home, identity, and growing up into your classroom with this focused, high-impact close-reading lesson. Students annotate the passage using guided prompts that help them track tone, analyze Angelou’s rhetorical strategies, and explore her deeper message about childhood and the self. Perfect for Black History Month, an ELA skills unit, or any text-analysis day, this resource includes a printable tone-words reference sheet to support all learners. Tho