On Wednesday, March 30th we TPCASTT the poem, "If We Must Die" by Claude McKay. Please make sure to fill out a TPCASTT chart on this poem. If you need a reminder on the steps of TPCASTT, you can find the class notes in the student work section of the website. Please find the poem below:
If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursed lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen we must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
In addition to TPCASTT the poem, we wrote an open response that argues that the events in Claude McKay's life inspired the poem. We read an article written by Claude McKay about his poem and we used that artic
If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursed lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen we must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
In addition to TPCASTT the poem, we wrote an open response that argues that the events in Claude McKay's life inspired the poem. We read an article written by Claude McKay about his poem and we used that artic