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Chargement... A Wreath for Emmett Till (2005)par Marilyn Nelson
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Marilyn Nelson memorializes Emmet Till in an epic and moving book using a heroic crown of sonnets. The first fourteen sonnets address different aspects of civil rights, American history, or the life of Emmet Till. The last sonnet is composed from the first lines from the preceding sonnets. The first letters of each line spell "RIP EMMET TILL". This a powerful book that I will not forget and will share given every opportunity. This book would be best used in a fifth-grade classroom as a read aloud. The content of the book is graphic and it would be best to have discussions along with the book. For the students, I would have them compose their own sonnets about their feelings of the book. Then students would be broken into groups to dissect the sonnets in the book and find the meaning behind them. Nelson crafted an amazing work of art here with this melancholy, disturbing sonnet. I appreciate that she included educational supplementary materials; a synopsis of the Emmett Till story, commentary on all literary references to which she alludes, commentary on the poem itself, and insight into the writing process. Rich with symbolism, challenging vocabulary, and everything I love about poetry, I hope my more ambitious students will take the time to let Nelson take them where she wants them to go. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Presents fifteen interlinked sonnets to pay tribute to Emmitt Till, a fourteen-year-old African American boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for supposedly whistling at a white woman, and whose murderers were acquitted. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime drew wide media attention. Award-winning poet Marilyn Nelson reminds us of the boy whose fate helped spark the civil rights movement. This martyr's wreath, woven from a little-known but sophisticated form of poetry, challenges us to speak out against modern-day injustices--to speak what we see. Newbery Honor-winning poet Nelson offers an evocative tribute to a 14-year-old boy whose lynching in 1955 helps spark the civil rights movement. Full color. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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