The text structure is moderately complex because although the words are spare and very complex, the illustrations are dominant, detailed and straightforward, enriching the meaning and making it more accessible. Qualitative Reading Level: The purpose of the poem, “Mood Indigo” is very complex with several levels of meaning. Quantitative Reading Level: DRA 40, F&P Level R, Reading Maturity Grades 3-6. Older students can research the characters and cultural references Shange mentions.Ĭontent Area: English Language Arts, Cultural Studies Also can be used to study African American culture and history. Choose an opening line that gets repeated, using Shange’s line as an example: “It hasn’t always been this way,” and “It wasn’t always like this”. Suggestions for Teachers: Use this book as a mentor text for an autobiographical poetry assignment. The calm and beautiful illustrations breath life into the verse. Dubois, Paul Robeson, Duke Ellington, and others.
Summary: In the poem, “Mood Indigo,” poet Ntosake Shange recounts her childhood in a home that hosted such great thinkers, actors, artists, and musicians as Dizzy Gillespie, W.
New York: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers.
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