Qualitative Reading Level: The purpose of the poem, “Mood Indigo” is very complex with several levels of meaning. Quantitative Reading Level: DRA 40, F&P Level R, Reading Maturity Grades 3-6. Older students can research the characters and cultural references Shange mentions.Ĭontent Area: English Language Arts, Cultural Studies Also can be used to study African American culture and history. Choose an opening line that gets repeated, using Shange’s line as an example: “It hasn’t always been this way,” and “It wasn’t always like this”. Suggestions for Teachers: Use this book as a mentor text for an autobiographical poetry assignment. The calm and beautiful illustrations breath life into the verse. Dubois, Paul Robeson, Duke Ellington, and others. Summary: In the poem, “Mood Indigo,” poet Ntosake Shange recounts her childhood in a home that hosted such great thinkers, actors, artists, and musicians as Dizzy Gillespie, W. New York: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers.
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