The Negro Speaks of Rivers- Langston Hughes The Aboriginal Identity Identity Crisis- Gary Gottriedson My Soars- Chief Dan George Always Told I Was A White Girl- by Tara Shannon Geographic identity Empire of Mind- JayZ We Are More- Shane Koyasan Canadians- Mariam Waddington The Town- Macklemore Sexual Identity Tattoos- anonymous Same Love- Macklemore We Exist- Arcade Fire Poems about war by Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth Dulce et Decorum Live Life! O’ Me, O’Life by Walt Whitman Lose Yourself- Eminem Possible websites to use: Follow simple rules when quoting and citing poetry. 1) When you quote exact words, phrases, or lines from poems, set the quotations off with quotation marks and cite the line from which the textual material comes in parentheses at the end of the sentence containing it. Punctuate your sentence — that is, put your punctuation mark outside the end parenthesis. Ex.: According to the poem, “tender is the night” (35). 2) When you quote consecutive lines of poetry (lines that follow each other in the poem), use a virgule (/) to indicate where the lines “break” (are separated) in the poem. Then, in your parenthetical citation, list the first and last line quoted, separating them with a hyphen (dash). Ex.: According to the poem, “tender is the night, / And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, / Cluster’d around by all her starry Fays” (35-37). 3) When you quote four or more consecutive lines of poetry, use “long quotation” or “blockquote” formatting. Introduce the quotation with a short signal phrase; begin the
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