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This lesson has been used for the junior high school student. The lesson assumes that the students have background information on Aphrodite, Cupid, Persephone, the Trojan War and Jason and the Argonauts.
Skill: Introduction to the life and poems of Langston Hughes - Harlem Renaissance
This lesson has been used for the junior high school students. Students will investigate Langston Hughes' life. Students will be asked to interpret "A Dream Deferred" in the contest of their personal lives and their country.
This lesson plan has been used for the junior high student. Students will investigate Maya Angelou's life. Students will be asked to interpret "Clinton Inaugural Poem" in the context of this year's election.