Procedures
Step 1: Reading a poem
Good morning, class. Today we are going to take up Unit 10 American literature. Please look up at the screen and read aloud the poem entitled Ancestors.
1 What kind of text is the one you have just read?
2 What is it about and what does it mean?
3 Can you tell something about the writer?
4 Why is this probably American literature?
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Duddley Randall (1914-2000) was an African-American poet and poetry publisher from Detroit, Michigan. He operated a publishing company called Broadside Press from 1965 to 1977, which published many leading African-American writers. Randall’s most famous poem is “The ballad of Birmingham”, written during the 1960s, about the 1963 bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama. Randall’s poetry is characterized by simplicity and realism.
