Adapted from ACHIEVE 3000 Contrast Frame Graphic Organizer
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L. O. Students will devise categories for comparing and contrasting two poems, “Mankind Does Not
Agree” and “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.”
ØWhen you compare and contrast, you have to compare and contrast like things, such as Author’s
Purpose, Big Idea, Essential Questions, Point of View, Problem, Questions the poem raises.
Use this graphic organizer to organize your thoughts.
Poem 1 “Mankind Does Not Agree” Poem 2 _”I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings__
Write the ways that Poem 1 and Poem 2 are alike:
Ways that Poem 1 and Poem 2 are alike and different
Author’s Point of
View (1 st person,
2 nd person, 3 rd person, 3 rd person omniscient narrator)
Hint – can you find pronouns
Main Idea
Hint- Big Idea
Relevant Essential
Question
Relevant Magnet
Standard
Author’s Purpose
Problem
What questions do the poems raise for you?