This product will allow your students to easily understand and analyze Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool" by breaking it down line-by-line!

Instruct your students to fold the paper in half the long way, and to cut along the black lines into the midline of the paper. They will end up with a long, skinny version of the poem on the front of the flaps, and analysis question inside.

As they read the poem, they will peel back the flap to reveal questions that ask them to analyze for theme, connotation, rhyme, alliteration, ungrammatical speech, word choice, diction, author’s purpose, characterization, and point of view.

An answer key is included! This product is perfect for your students' interactive notebooks, as an in-class activity, or for homework. The activity would be appropriate for accelerated middle school or high school classes. I've also used it in conjunction with Hinton's The Outsiders. Please ask if you have any questions!