A People's History of the United States Lesson Plan

Langston Hughes and the Poetry of Resistance

Kind of Activity:

Creative Writing

Objective:

Students will write their own resistance or otherwise political poem, based on Langston Hughes's poem, "I, Too."

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.1.11-12; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.7.11-12

Structure:

If you did not assign the additional homework assignment for class, ask students to review the Langston Hughes found on the Poetry Foundation website. Ask each student to choose a specific poem, and then read it by themselves, taking notes on the lines that stand out to them as particularly political or relevant to the content from A People's History of...