Reflection Jan/ 11/23

      Today, we finished our discussion questions on the first poem we read by famous American Poet Langston Hughes.  The title of that poem was "The Negro Speaks of Rivers". After that, we moved on to another one of his pieces called "Mother to Son".  We anotated that poem the same way we did with the first one.  "Mother to Son" was about a mom who was telling her son that even though life is rough and has ups and downs that he has to keep going.  From this, we came to the conclusion that the son had complained to his mother about how hard life was.  As part of her response, the mother said that she's still pushing forward and that he can do the same. 

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