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**Maya Angelou is a woman close to my heart. She is, no doubt, one of my most impressive and thought-provoking female icons of the 20th and 21st  centuries. ****Now, that you've studied one of her poems and discussed some of her words ****in class ****, you're up to the challenge of unveiling some of her truths. Motivated by her strength and wil power, let's see if you're up to your new tasks. ****1. As Maya Angelou says, "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." ****What's the point of this quote? ****2. ****"I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS" is the title of both a poem and a book she wrote. ****a. What's your opinion about the poem? ** media type="youtube" key="8eL2FG4-FAw" height="195" width="240" **b. Now, watch the following trailer of the film based on her book and relate it to what we've mentioned in class in relation to her early years. ****[] ****c. Discover some of her words and let them here. ****To serve as personal motto, let me share with you the poem that stuck with me the most. ** media type="youtube" key="7ZM_cPlgFq4" height="195" width="240" **<span style="background-color: #0fa30f; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZM_cPlgFq4 ** <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 15.75pt; text-align: justify;">B. Now, share your answers. __**Edit the page and write here.**__ If you want to comment on other students' opinions, do it on the Discussion Forum. The page will be open till next Sunday, the 6th February. I'm also going to publish here some of the illustrations You made of "STILL I RISE" and the poems you wrote. Who knows? You may turn into the next Portuguese Maya Angelou :)) This is the first of a long line... <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">CÁTIA, 11th B <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">**<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">SOFIA, 11th B ** <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">
 * <span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;"> FILIPA, 11th A **

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> To view the work please follow the link below and just click the forward arrow :D <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> http://prezi.com/rp_p8dofo-xp/still-i-rise/ <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">João Neto 11th A <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;"> No matter how, I smile <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Sometimes life stops, <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Sometimes I lose, <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Sometimes I hate me, <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">But I smile.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Imagine yourself being cut! <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Imagine me cutting myself! <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">My own thoughts hurt. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">My own voice kills. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">But I smile.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">I feel like a shark, <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">But I am my own victim. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">I hurt myself everyday... <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">When I lose, when I fail.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Do you feel like great people? <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">I don't. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">I see myself going deep every day, <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Very deep into a dark hole in the sun.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Twenty four hours a day I want to cry, <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">To run away, to hide. <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">But, when I see the sun, I smile.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">No matter how sad I am, <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">No matter how slow time passes by, <span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Above everything, I keep smiling.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Francisca, 11th B

It must be the truth and when I first read her notable sentence "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." I was quite confused, because, in some way, I did understand but some part was missing. Now, I am capable of saying what the meaning was. Now, I can say that a bird in a cage is unhappy but, even being unhappy, he wants to show that he is stronger than his bad feelings, that even in that situation he is capable of handling it and singing! Maya is a very strong woman who shows to the world that even a person who's so sad is capable of handling the situation or even making fun of it!! She passed through a lot and, by now, she is a woman who deserves all the respect you can think of! About the poem, it's so deep! It's a metaphor for the opportunities that we - women have - like the birds... Those who are in a cage and those who are free, but with or without wings to dream/fly. It's really worth it! The part which touched me the most was : __ «But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams/ his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream/ his wings are clipped and his feet are tied/ so he opens his throat to sing »__.If sometimes you think your life is hard, please, reconsider your motives/reasons...By the way, teacher, I am very pleased that my poem is in here... Thank you for every word you say **♥** ** Francisca, 11thB ** **<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">﻿Very good interpretation, Francisca. I think the part of the poem you chose is very impressive really. ANA ** **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #800080; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">﻿ ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">I have the same opinion of Quica The caged bird who still sings ... it just can be a lot of strength! Will of living. It's a life lesson. Another person in the same circumstances (closed, private of the world, without freedom) she no longer wanted to live, she would no longer see the colors, she would stop seeing the world. But Maya(or the bird) found strength in the infinite and fought. Maya Angelou said, "somebody needs to tell young people, listen, I did this and I did that. You may encounter many defeats, __**but you do must not be defeated.**__"

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">This sentence say a lot. Cátia Borrego    **<span style="background-color: #ffff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">SORRY! TIME'S UP. PAGE LOCKED. Only 2 page edits!!... What a pity! ANA **