Daily Blog 3

 Today in Mr. Rease’s class, we read another poem by Langston Hughes called “Mother To Son”. This poem was about not giving up on struggles or challenges, no matter how difficult they seem. Before we annotated the poem, I didn’t quite understand the meaning behind some of the phrases and lines. Afterwards, I thought the poem was very motivating and conveyed a strong message. At the end, we came with 3 themes for the poem, and then we answered a few questions about what we analyzed throughout it. 


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