Monique Duran Per:1 2/21/13 Black History Month Graphic organizer and Greeting Card

Questions
1. Name the website you found the poem on. 2.What is the name of the poem? 3. Who is the author of the poem? 4. Insert a picture of the author.

Answers
The website I found the poem was afropoets. The name of the poem is Black Finger The author of the poem is Angelina W. Grimke.

5. What does the title tell you The title tells me about the about the poem? poem is its about fingers and love. 6. Explain the first thing you The first thing I notice about notice about the poem? the poem its really nice and it talks about fingers. 7. Why did you select this I select this poem because it

poem? How did it interest inspire you?

looked interesting. It inspire me because it was about a black finger why its black if its beautiful. 8. What mood did the poem It gave me a happy feeling create in you after reading it? after I read the poem.

Dear Desiree, If your black you should stand up for your rights. Blacks are like everyone we both have feelings. We should give respect to black. Like in back in the days People treated black bad and treated them like blacks are not worth. How would you feel if you were black and live back then? Thats why many blacks wanted to make a change in that some of them sang songs, poems, and even risk there lives for other blacks. I selected this poem because it made me feel like this person Angelina wanted to make a change In that. It made me feel like black are worth

The Black Finger By: Angelina W. Grimk I have just seen a beautiful
thing Slim and still, Against a gold, gold sky, A straight cypress, Sensitive Exquisite, A black finger Pointing upwards. Why, beautiful, still finger are you black? And why are you pointing upwards?