Assignment task:
Learning Objective: Extract meaning of text through interaction and involvement with written and oral text.
Task: In your notebook, respond to the poem below by explaining the message or the theme of the poem is revealed through the speaker (narrator) of the poem.
The Bean Eaters
Gwendolyn Brooks
1917 - 2000
They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair.
Dinner is a casual affair.
Plain chipware on a plain and creaking wood,
Tin flatware.
Two who are Mostly Good.
Two who have lived their day,
But keep on putting on their clothes
And putting things away.
And remembering . .
Remembering, with twinklings and twinges,
As they lean over the beans in their rented back room that
is full of beads and receipts and dolls and cloths,
tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes.