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We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks

We Real Cool Gwendolyn Brooks ,1917 –2000
THE POOL PLAYERS.
SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL.
We real cool. We
Left school. We
Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We
Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We
Jazz June. We
Die soon.
1 Main Idea. Summarize the main idea of the poem? Who or what is the poem about?
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2 Identify Theme. What is the theme of the poem? What is the message that the author is trying to send and how do you know it?
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3 Make Inferences. How do you think the speaker of the poem feels about the people he/she is observing? How can you tell?
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4 Compare and Contrast. Think back to the short story Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach from the unit Learning to Fly that we recently completed ? What are the similarities and differences between the people of the poem and the bird of the short story?
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