Students should read the following poems, published between 1921 and 1930:
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
"Mother to Son"
"Dreams"
"My People"
"The Weary Blues"
Common Core Objectives
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.2
Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text. - 2
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.2
Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text. - 3
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.9-10.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as...
