We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks by https://padlet.com/johnsonouillettes/kub55fl4x3ijnzmi en-us 2021-02-10 21:14:43 UTC 2023-03-03 18:40:08 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/993926943/a101ef3eb20e90651eaad015f30373c2/We_Real_Cool.png What did Brooks mean when she said that the pool players were "contemptuous of the establishment?" johnsonouillettes https://padlet.com/johnsonouillettes/kub55fl4x3ijnzmi/wish/1195238998 What does "the establishment" mean?

Why would they be contemptuous of it?

How do you see this in the poem? Where?]]> 2021-02-12 03:19:44 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonouillettes/kub55fl4x3ijnzmi/wish/1195238998 johnsonouillettes https://padlet.com/johnsonouillettes/kub55fl4x3ijnzmi/wish/1195244829 2021-02-12 03:25:40 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonouillettes/kub55fl4x3ijnzmi/wish/1195244829 johnsonouillettes https://padlet.com/johnsonouillettes/kub55fl4x3ijnzmi/wish/1195253220 Gwendolyn Brooks introduces "We Real Cool"]]> 2021-02-12 03:34:26 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonouillettes/kub55fl4x3ijnzmi/wish/1195253220 johnsonouillettes https://padlet.com/johnsonouillettes/kub55fl4x3ijnzmi/wish/1195253608 Gwendolyn Brooks reads "We Real Cool"]]> 2021-02-12 03:34:53 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonouillettes/kub55fl4x3ijnzmi/wish/1195253608 We Real Cool johnsonouillettes https://padlet.com/johnsonouillettes/kub55fl4x3ijnzmi/wish/1195255420 The pool players.
Seven at the Golden Shovel.

We real cool. We
Left school. We

Lurk late. We
Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We
Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We
Die soon.]]> 2021-02-12 03:36:48 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonouillettes/kub55fl4x3ijnzmi/wish/1195255420 What do you take away from this poem? johnsonouillettes https://padlet.com/johnsonouillettes/kub55fl4x3ijnzmi/wish/1195308845 How do you leave the poem? 

Did it make you question any of your/society's beliefs or ideas?

Does knowing the historical time that this poem was written in influence your interpretation? ]]> 2021-02-12 04:37:53 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonouillettes/kub55fl4x3ijnzmi/wish/1195308845 johnsonouillettes https://padlet.com/johnsonouillettes/kub55fl4x3ijnzmi/wish/1195310997 2021-02-12 04:40:56 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonouillettes/kub55fl4x3ijnzmi/wish/1195310997 johnsonouillettes https://padlet.com/johnsonouillettes/kub55fl4x3ijnzmi/wish/1195313850 2021-02-12 04:44:57 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonouillettes/kub55fl4x3ijnzmi/wish/1195313850 Do the pool players really think that they're cool? johnsonouillettes https://padlet.com/johnsonouillettes/kub55fl4x3ijnzmi/wish/1195342084 How is this reflected in the form of the poem? (Line breaks, stanza breaks, rhyming, word placement, punctuation, diction, etc.)

Does their perception of themselves change over the course of the poem?]]> 2021-02-12 05:25:51 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonouillettes/kub55fl4x3ijnzmi/wish/1195342084 johnsonouillettes https://padlet.com/johnsonouillettes/kub55fl4x3ijnzmi/wish/1195350270 “I want to write poems that will be non-compromising. I don’t want to stop a concern with words doing good jobs, which has always been a concern of mine, but I want to write poems that will be meaningful… things that will touch them.”]]> 2021-02-12 05:38:51 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsonouillettes/kub55fl4x3ijnzmi/wish/1195350270