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Teaching We Real Cool 

We Real Cool 

"We Real Cool" is a jazzy lyric poem written in 1959 by Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black American to win a Pulitzer Prize.

Gwendolyn Brooks
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ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

How does Brooks describe the speakers' lives in the poem?
STANDARDS:

DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE (DOK) LEVELS:

2,3
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