POETRY by Langton Hughes

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You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,

You may kill me with your hatefulness,

But still, like air, I'll rise.

Maya Angelou

B&B for next class:

• Read four more pages of the short story " Poor Little Black fellow" ( up to V )
• Look for information related to the Harlem Rennaisance.

DEBATE: Green vs Blue

VOCABULARY awareness:

VOCABULARY Revision:

African Diaspora /daɪˈæs.pər.ə/ the spreading of people from one original country to other countries.

Apartheid: /əˈpɑː.taɪt/ /-teɪt/  (in the past in South Africa) a political system in which people of different races were separated

Unalienable rights: /ʌnˈeɪ.li.ə.nə.bl̩/

Nullification: To nullify / ˈnʌl.ɪ.faɪ/ to cause something to have no value or effect:

Emancipation /ɪˌmæn.sɪˈpeɪ.ʃən/

Exile /ˈek.saɪl/ /ˈeɡ.zaɪl/ the condition of someone being sent or kept away from their own country,village, etc., especially for political reasons:

undercover racism  /ˌʌn.dəˈkʌv.ər/ working secretly using a false appearance in order to get information for the police or government:

passive agressive

Words in Poem by Maya Angelou: "Still I Rise"

Sassy: rude and showing no respect 

Beset: having a lot of trouble with something, or having to deal with a lot of something that causes problems

Haughtiness: haughty:  /ˈhɔː.ti/   unfriendly and seeming to consider yourself better than other people

wondrously: extremely, used to emphasize an approving description