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 Today we went over the poem "I, Too" by Langston Hughes that we worked on yesterday. We came up with 3 themes, the first one being that no matter how bad things may seem, things eventually get better. The second theme we came up with was that "this is my country too". The last theme we developed was to not let discrimination get to you. Afterwards, we took a test on all of the Langston Hughes poems we worked on this week.

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