Assignment 1. Read/Listen to audio: Langston Hughes The Dream Keeper & Other Poems (1932)Watch: videos . Pick a poem and examine it in relation to other children’s poets we have read. How is Hughes similar to them in themes? What elements are added? Notice also the use of dialect in several poem. Comment on the discussion board Videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM7HSOwJw20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cKDOGhghMU
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_l_nVnKNm7N4HYj_4EHtlQ1b6xYszKezGA
Poems: https://allpoetry.com/Langston-Hughes
Read: Read:Mother To Son, April Rain Song, As I Grew Older, Harlem: Dream Deferred, Dreams, Genius Child, I, Too, The Negro Mother, The Negro Speaks Of Rivers
Assignment2. Read: Joel Chandler Harris Uncle Remus (1880) The first 3 paragraphs of his “Introduction,” “Uncle Remus Initiates the Little Boy,” “The Wonderful Tar Baby,” and “Why the Negro is Black” Watch: Gullah Traditions of the South Carolina CoastComment on the Discussion Board. In your comments, pick one of the tales. I know they are hard to read because of the dialect (which should remind you of the way Jim spoke in Tom Sawyer and will come up again in Langston Hughes’s poetry). Read them aloud. Try to figure out where the resistance and rebellion are in the tale.
- Stories
- “UNCLE REMUS INITIATES THE LI TTLE BOY”https://youtu.be/kQLuLeIXjuQ”
- THE WONDERFUL TAR BABY”https://youtu.be/P7RWVyxs_vg”
- WHY THE NEGRO IS BLACK”https://youtu.be/SFI1gmdk6Qk
- Gullah tradition of south of carolina coast- https://youtu.be/INLoxvNjFiA