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Making a Fist

Making a Fist. By Naomi Shihab Nye. Making a Fist.

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Making a Fist

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  1. Making a Fist By Naomi Shihab Nye

  2. Making a Fist • For the first time, on the road north of Tampico,I felt the life sliding out of me,a drum in the desert, harder and harder to hear.I was seven, I lay in the carwatching palm trees swirl a sickening pattern past the glass.My stomach was a melon split wide inside my skin.'How do you know if you are going to die?'I begged my mother. We had been traveling for days.With strange confidence she answered,'When you can no longer make a fist.'Years later I smile to think of that journey,the borders we must cross separately,stamped with our unanswerable woes.I who did not die, who am still living,still lying in the backseat behind all my questions,clenching and opening one small hand. • Naomi Shihab Nye

  3. QUESTIONS • STEP 1 • READ THE POEM AS A GROUP (3 PEOPLE PER GROUP) • STEP 2 • Pick a piece of the poem and respond with these questions • What does this section mean to you? • What does this piece of the poem remind you of? (book, movie, something you saw) • Make a connection from your personal life. • How could this piece of the poem be connected to other people?

  4. Group Share IN YOUR GROUP: • Labeling student A, one B, and the other C. • “A”s read their chosen piece of the poem.

  5. Next Step • B and C Students discuss A’s choice by answering the questions (out loud and written) • What do you think A’s choice means? • Why do you think these words might be important to the poem?

  6. Last Step • All “A” Students will share their reasons they chose that piece of the poem thus having “the last word.” Repeat steps for “B” people and “C” people

  7. Imagery • Imagery can be applied to this poem because it very well describes the palm trees. “watching palm trees swirl” Search For more examples of imagery

  8. Point of view • The point of view is coming from an experience when she was traveling as a child • Look for more a in depth Point of View

  9. Tone • The tone the author uses is nostalgic because she is looking back on she was traveling. • What tone do you read from this poem.

  10. Alliteration • How does Alliteration affect the poem.

  11. Short Notes of the Poem

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