'Still I Rise' Annotation Task and Structure Strip

Could be used for a KS3 or an Unseen Poetry KS4 task.

Guided annotation task and structure strip for Maya Angelou’s ‘Still I Rise’.

Question focus: ‘How does Angelou use language to show a sense of empowerment?’

Includes:

• Copy of the poem with clear step by step instructions for students to annotate the poem to answer the question ‘How does Angelou use language to show a sense of empowerment?’
• Defintions of key words to support students to decode the question
• List of poetic features for students to identify in the poem.
• List of higher level vocabulary to challenge and improve the quality of students’ annotations.
• Page 2 - structure strip to support students writing an extended response to the above question using their annotations.
• Model answer that includes the sentence starters in the structure strip to model a successful response.

I used this to model successful annotations and support a successful response in preparation for an EOU assessment.