Sing, Unburied, Sing Lesson Plan

Reading Langston Hughes

Kind of Activity:

Artistic Response

Objective:

Students will read two poems by Langston Hughes and chose or write a poem themselves.

Common Core Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.4

Structure:

Students should read the following poems by Langston Hughes:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47559/mother-to-son

Mother to Son

Well, son, I’ll tell you:
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
It’s had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor—
Bare.
But all the time
I’se been a-climbin’ on,
And reachin’ landin’s,
And turnin’ corners,
And sometimes goin’ in the dark
Where there ain’t been no light.
So boy, don’t...