Maya Angelou, On the Pulse of Morning - Speech Analysis

1. Watch the speech as a class.
2. Answer the questions on the document attached or a piece of paper.
3. Annotate the poem in class by doing the following: (At home student can write these annotations in the
   private comments).

• Highlight 2 examples of figurative language
• Underline 2 examples of rhetoric(ethos, pathos, logos)
• Circle new vocabulary and define the words in the margins.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59xGmHzxtZ4&ab_channel=clintonlibrary42

Sample Solution