1. “My Man Blue”
&
“The Highway
Man”
Ms. Mills
7th Grade Language Arts

2. Building Academic
Vocabulary
• Characterization
• Tone
• Mood
• Summarize

3. My Man Blue
by Nikki Grimes
His leathery skin’s
like indigo ink. • How do the “color
This rugged dude
who some folk think
words” physically
looks fierce in clothes describe the character?
of midnight black.
Then there’s his teeth: • How do the last four lines
one gold, three cracked.
And I suppose lend to a deeper side?
the shades could go.
He wears them night • How do “color words”
And day, I know.
Still, underneath
create a the tone and
this shell, Blue hides mood in the literary
a harmless selection?
gentle-giant side.

4. Activate Background Knowledge
• Review the • Narrative Poetry- tells a
vocabulary from story. It combines the
page 275 in elements of PLOT,
textbook. characterization, setting,
and poetic devices.
• Free Write…
describe a time you
had to make a
difficult choice in
order to help
someone you cared
about.

6. Four Square Analysis Chart

8. Today’s Exit Ticket
• What mood is created through
the use of descriptive language
in the literary poem, The
Highwayman?