1. Review and Clarify With your group, reread the lines of "Sonnet, With Bird" numbered 11 and 12. What point does the author make by defining
England in two different ways? Explain.
2. Present and Discuss Now, work with your group to share other key lines
from the poems. What made you choose these particular passages? Take
turns presenting your choices. Discuss what you notice in the poem, what
questions you asked, and what conclusions you reached.
3. Essential Question: Do people need to belong? What have these
poems taught you about being an outsider? Discuss with your group.

frances ellen watkins harper writing was influenced by: b. the education she received growing up in the north.

she was born in baltimore, maryland, on september 24, 1825. after the death of her parents, her uncle reverend william watkins, a teacher at the academy for negro youth, raised and educated her. she also continued educating herself by accessing a library of the family she worked for, beginning writing poetry afterwards. as a civil rights activist and abolitionist, watkins greatly influenced her life and work.

innocence can be defined as the lack of sin, relating it with the lack of guilt, also it can be a synonime of naivety. most people agree that sins are made out of experiences, intentionally or not, as well as you stop being naive once certain things happen to you throughout your life. so, with this explained, the chosen answers are:

when the boy saw the effects of war, he no longer viewed life as innocent.

the loss of innocence is a result of gaining experience and making mistakes.

one way to define innocence is as a lack of worldly experience or sophistication.

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