![]() ![]() It’s really uneven, but how else would it be? Her life from age three to age sixteen was really uneven. It moves in fits and lurches, which is probably how Angelou’s memory functions and also how she managed to glean the important bits from her early story. It’s autobiography, which is why it has some plot and continuity issues (not in factuality, but in flow). ![]() I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings might be her most-read work, a memoir first in the series and chronologically covering from birth to age sixteen. Her work has inspired and educated millions of people around the world, largely through her poetry and her series of memoirs about growing up Black in America through the twentieth century and sometimes poor and sometimes abused or neglected. In short, she’s one of the most famous authors of several generations and had a varied career from civil rights activist to poet to Broadway singer. Nonetheless, I eulogized her HERE, so if you are curious about her, that would be a good place to read a few paragraphs about her life and work. I can’t imagine the vast majority of you are not familiar with Maya Angelou and her work. ![]() Punch line: I am not going to include it in the curriculum, though I would recommend the book. I was really hoping this one would stick, even though it’s a touch longer than I would be including, ideally. If you’re new here, then you alone are not sick of hearing this: I was reading I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings in order to write a curriculum for ninth grade homeschoolers in a class I am teaching this year. ![]()
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