Anchor text: Stand Tall; Select poetry, prose, multimedia texts; Langston Hughes' "Mother to Son"; Writing skills: compare/contrast writing concepts and skills; Choose adjectives/adverbs to enhance writing

Analyze novel pages for development of character, conflict, theme; analyze novel for author's style, literary elements, and effect on reader; apply writing skill in own writing in response to reading and discussion; analyze poem "Mother to Son" for figurative language and theme