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    Directions: As You Read The Poem, Record Things You Notice, Things That Stand Out, and Write Down Questions You May Have

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    The speaker feels conflicted and isolated as a teenager. She mentions her mother being in the bedroom with the door closed in each stanza, suggesting she feels disconnected from her mother. The speaker wonders if she will survive to adulthood and seems unable to focus on any one topic as a teen, shifting between school, relationships, and her appearance. She feels different from others and like an outsider even in her own home.

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    Directions: As You Read The Poem, Record Things You Notice, Things That Stand Out, and Write Down Questions You May Have

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    The speaker feels conflicted and isolated as a teenager. She mentions her mother being in the bedroom with the door closed in each stanza, suggesting she feels disconnected from her mother. The speaker wonders if she will survive to adulthood and seems unable to focus on any one topic as a teen, shifting between school, relationships, and her appearance. She feels different from others and like an outsider even in her own home.

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    The speaker feels conflicted and isolated as a teenager. She mentions her mother being in the bedroom with the door closed in each stanza, suggesting she feels disconnected from her mother. The speaker wonders if she will survive to adulthood and seems unable to focus on any one topic as a teen, shifting between school, relationships, and her appearance. She feels different from others and like an outsider even in her own home.

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    Directions: As You Read The Poem, Record Things You Notice, Things That Stand Out, and Write Down Questions You May Have

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    The speaker feels conflicted and isolated as a teenager. She mentions her mother being in the bedroom with the door closed in each stanza, suggesting she feels disconnected from her mother. The speaker wonders if she will survive to adulthood and seems unable to focus on any one topic as a teen, shifting between school, relationships, and her appearance. She feels different from others and like an outsider even in her own home.

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    Name: ___________________________________________ Period: _____ Date: _________________________

    “Hanging Fire” – Close Read

    Directions: As you read the poem, record things you notice, things that stand out, and write down
    questions you may have.

    Notes
    Poem by Audre Lorde
    I am fourteen ___________________________________
    and my skin has betrayed me
    the boy I cannot live without Think about… ___________________________________
    still sucks his thumb
    in secret How does the speaker feel ___________________________________
    how come my knees are about her own body?
    always so ashy ___________________________________
    what if I die
    before morning ___________________________________
    and momma’s in the bedroom
    with the door closed. ___________________________________

    I have to learn how to dance ___________________________________


    in time for the next party
    my room is too small for me ___________________________________
    suppose I die before graduation Think about…
    they will sing sad melodies ___________________________________
    but finally Is the speaker able to focus
    tell the truth about me ___________________________________
    on a specific topic? Why or
    There is nothing I want to do why not? What is the
    ___________________________________
    and too much speaker telling you?
    that has to be done
    ___________________________________
    and momma’s in the bedroom
    with the door closed.
    ___________________________________
    Nobody even stops to think ___________________________________
    about my side of it
    I should have been on Math Team ___________________________________
    my marks were better than his
    why do I have to be Think about…
    ___________________________________
    the one
    wearing braces The speaker mentions her
    mother in her bedroom
    ___________________________________
    I have nothing to wear
    with the door closed in
    tomorrow each stanza. Why? ___________________________________
    will I live long enough
    to grow up ___________________________________
    and momma’s in the bedroom
    with the door closed. ___________________________________

    ___________________________________

    ___________________________________
    Name: ___________________________________________ Period: _____ Date: _________________________

    “Teenagers” – Close Read

    Directions: As you read the poem, record things you notice, things that stand out, and write down
    questions you may have.

    Notes

    Poem by Pat Mora ___________________________________


    One day they disappear Think
    into their rooms. about… ___________________________________
    Doors and lips shut,
    Is the
    and we become strangers ___________________________________
    scenario in
    in our own home. the first
    stanza ___________________________________
    I pace the hall, hear whispers, familiar to
    a code I knew but can’t remember, you? ___________________________________
    mouthed by mouths I taught to speak.
    ___________________________________
    Years later the door opens.
    I see faces I once held, Think
    ___________________________________
    open as sunflowers in my hands. I see about…
    familiar skin now stretched on long bodies ___________________________________
    How is the
    that move past me last stanza ___________________________________
    glowing different
    almost like pearls. from the ___________________________________
    first two?
    ___________________________________

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