Here are 3 reason that will give one certainity!

Three reasons why an IB Student should study Giovanni: 

1. Giovanni writes poetry about civil rights, feminine empowerment and black power. 
2. All poems have motifs of love, power, happiness and sadness. 
3. She is a survivor. 

Giovanni writes poetry about civil rights, feminine empowerment and black power. Giovanni writes to motiviate others. She especially writes to the struggling women and about the struggle of freedom and equality for African- Americans. Giovanni's poetry uplifts the reader or provides the reader with diverse cultural context and backgrounds. It is very important that a student to study Giovanni because of her ability to write poems that convey emotional and personal connections too events. She emphasizes that her poetry reflects the struggle through the Civil Rights Movement and the struggle for liberation.

Giovanni's poems have motifs of love, power happiness or sadness. As students, we each annotate poems with various motifs or a change in mood.  Giovanni's poems provide an unusual was of presentation meaning and words, but have hidden motifs and innuendos that students can provide their own analysis. Giovannir's poems establish identity and her inner vioce. She discloses and reveals reality to her perception.
She is a survivor! A part from being a poet, Giovanni survived from cancer. A student should study an author that has great qualities in their writing as well as outside their writing. Giovanni also wrote about the struggle becoming cancer free. Giovanni should be deeply admired, studied and appreciated for her educational background and English literature education. Today, Giovanni is a professor at Virginia Tech.