Another open response . . .
This week, we watched a powerful documentary called Eyes on the Prize: Awakenings about the lynching of a fourteen-year-old boy named Emmett Till. We also read and analyzed a moving poem called "Strange Fruit" about racism in the South during Segregation. Your open response assignment asks you to identify and explain the main metaphor from this poem (the "strange and bitter crop") using specific details from the poem and the documentary to support your answer. Please:
- Brainstorm details and
- Combine and eliminate details in the space provided on the prompt.
- Complete the graphic organizer draft
- and add Context and Transitions on the graphic organizer,
- type or hand-write a full draft on another piece of paper.