One More Round by Maya Angelou

What did the author mean when she says '"One more round

• Continue with the process

• Let's do it again

• Don't give up

• stop

What was the tone of the poem?

• happy

• angry

• frustrated

• silly

This poem is modeled after songs workers sang as they laboured. What lines could be made into a song?

• One more round and let's heave it down

• Papa drove steel and Moma stood guard

• To be worked out slaves

• But I was not born

The speaker repeats the, "One more round, and let's heave it down to emphasize that the work is :

• extremely tiring

• boring

• simple

• frustrating

In line 20 thru 24 the speaker states It was not labor that made them lose their minds. What can the reader infer from this statement?

• The work made them crazy

• The work continued and it is never ending.

• The bosses were mean

• The people were angry.