1. Complete the primary reading assignments assigned in this module

Answer the Reading Response questions about the assigned writings

2. Finally, utilizing your work on the above (and any guidance you received from your instructor), answer the Discussion Board question(s) below.

· Discussion Question 3

· How do the writers draw from other cultural forms of expression and communication to reflect reality and advocate for social change?

· How do the themes of these works relate to your lives today?

· Reading Assignment
· “The Negro Speaks Rivers”

“Theme for English B” “I, Too” “Mother to Son” (1921-22-25) by Langston Hughes

“Sweat” (1926) by Zora Neale Hurston

https://poets.org/poem/negro-speaks-rivers

https://poets.org/poem/theme-english-b

https://poets.org/poem/i-too

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47559/mother-to-son

Langston Hughes reads The Negro Speaks of Rivers