http://www.empirezine.com/spotlight/

maya/maya-p2.htm

I Know Why the

Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

http://search.biography.com/print_record.pl?id=12328

http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Authors/about_maya_angelou.html

http://www.bookrags.com/notes/ikwc/BIO.htm

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/cagedbird/context.html

Literary and Historical References:

     http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCagedBird56.asp

Map of Arkansas: http://www.educeth.ch/english/readinglist/maps/arkansas.html

African American Odyssey:

     http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html

African American Experience in Arkansas: http://www.aristotle.net/persistence/

History and Culture of Southwest Arkansas:

     http://peace.saumag.edu/swark/sara/saraindex/saralist6.html

Music and Literature: http://www.rockhall.com/programs/plans.asp 

Characters:

     http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/caged/charlist.html

     http://www.bookrags.com/notes/ikwc/CHR.htm 

     http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/cagedbird/canalysis.html

     http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCagedBird04.asp 

Themes:

     http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/caged/themes.html

     http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCagedBird07.asp

Setting: http://www.geocities.com/frankie_meehan/CagedBirdSettings.htm

Plot Summaries:

     http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Titles/caged/fullsumm.html

     http://www.bookrags.com/notes/ikwc/SUM.htm 

     http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/cagedbird/summary.html

     http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCagedBird06.asp

Quizzes:

     http://www.gradesaver.com/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/readers/quiz.cgi?book=caged&q_start=1&total_q=40

     http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/cagedbird/quiz.html

Objects/Places: http://www.bookrags.com/notes/ikwc/CHR.htm

Quotes:

     http://www.bookrags.com/notes/ikwc/QUO.htm

     http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/cagedbird/quotes.html

Key Facts: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/cagedbird/facts.html

Questions:

     http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/cagedbird/study.html

     http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCagedBird57.asp

     http://www.randomhouse.com/resources/bookgroup/mayaangelou_bgc.html#Questions 

     http://www.teachervision.com/tv/printables/0876288549_155.pdf  

Conflict: http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCagedBird05.asp

Language: http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCagedBird54.asp 

Vocabulary:

     http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmCagedBird55.asp

     http://www.vocabulary.com/VUctcagedbird.html

Anticipation Guides:

     http://www.westga.edu/~kidreach/cagedbird.html

     http://www.westga.edu/~kidreach/cagedbird2.html

Teaching Guides:

     http://www.westga.edu/~kidreach/cagedbirdlesson.html

     http://www.school-library.org/multicultural/WALKER%20-%202.htm 

     http://www.trinity.edu/departments/education/SACK/I%20Know%20Why%20The%

          20Caged%20Bird%20Sings.htm

     http://www210.pair.com/udticg/lessonplans/angelou/

     http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-5173.html

     http://www.coreknowledge.org/CKproto2/resrcs/lessons/82K_Bird_Sings.pdf  

     http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1985/3/85.03.03.x.html#cv 

Writing Topics:

     http://eghs.dist214.k12.il.us/html/academics/english/summer/cagedBird.html

     http://www.geocities.com/frankie_meehan/CagedBirdTextProductions.html

     http://www.teachervision.com/tv/printables/0876288549_154.pdf

Language: http://www.geocities.com/frankie_meehan/CagedBirdLanguageVariety.html

Comparing Fiction and Autobiography:

     http://www.geocities.com/frankie_meehan/FictionandAutobiography.html