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Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou. Listening Comprehension Exercise Tense and Word Order Practice. Vocabulary. Sustenance Molested Supported Although Activist Devastated I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Vocabulary. Racially segregated Strong Bond Dead Refused Joined Scholarship quitting.

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Maya Angelou

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  1. Maya Angelou Listening Comprehension Exercise Tense and Word Order Practice

  2. Vocabulary • Sustenance • Molested • Supported • Although • Activist • Devastated • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  3. Vocabulary • Racially segregated • Strong Bond • Dead • Refused • Joined • Scholarship • quitting

  4. Instructions • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyHqafC740Q • The video will be played twice. • After watching the video, the professor will ask you questions which you will answer in complete sentences.

  5. Answer in complete sentences using the correct tense. • Where was Maya Angelou born? • What did her grandmother teach her? • What terrible event happened in her childhood? • Why did Maya stop talking for 5 years? • What were some of her professions? • In what places did she live? • How does the video describe her political views?

  6. Why did she return to the United States in 1964? • How did she help Malcolm X? • What political events were devastating for Maya Angelou? • How did she support her son? • How was her biography titled? • WhathadPresident Clinton asked her to do at his Presidential Inauguration ?

  7. Writing Exercise • Based on the video and the questions answered, write a ten sentence paragraph about Maya Angelou.

  8. And Still I RiseMaya Angelou(For Further Study) • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MLEVVUkj0

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