Assignment Three: Activity 3.5 A Catalogue of Coming-of-Age Experiences
Grade: Homework / Home Learning
Description: Answer the following questions as you read Nikki Giovanni’s Nikki Rosa pp. 209-210
1) Generate a list of childhood remembrances that an outsider might perceive to be negative, but
are actually positive experiences.
2) What do these experiences reveal about you as a person?
3) Read Nikki Rosa by Nikki Giovanni. What do you learn about the speaker’s life from the poem?
4) Mark the text for powerful images.
5) What question would you ask Nikki Giovanni if she were in class?
6) Why did she elect to omit punctuation from this poem?
7) What does she capitalize and why? Give examples.
8) Identify key ideas in the poem that provide insight into the speaker’s character.
9) Identify Giovanni’s diction throughout the poem.