Monday, September 23, 2013

Let America Be America Again - Critical Discourse Questions

Due 9/24 - -
Here is the Link to the poem:








Does the use of power reinforce or destroy stereotypes? How, specifically?




•Who is given power? How do you know?

•What power relations are being negotiated? Explicit and implicit: expose all relations?


•What is the speaker’s perspective? What is his attitude in relation to his subject?


•Who is the intended audience?

•What perspectives are marginalized or devalued in the text?

•Does this text position the reader as in insider or outsider? How do you know?

•What voices are not heard? How could this be important?

•What moral lessons does the text support?

•How does the text push you to interpret it a particular way?

How do the various italicized words and phrases create meaning?

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