Unit One: What Happens to a Dream Deferred?

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Unit One: What Happens to a Dream Deferred?

What factors impact whether or not we can achieve our dreams? ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS What factors impact whether or not we can achieve our dreams? What shapes your identify? Is the American dream attainable?

Annotate “Harlem” Consider the title of the poem Locate poetic devices: (examples: imagery and simile) Who is the speaker? Determine meaning: theme, tone, mood Consider the structure of the poem

Background on Langston Hughes -Lived between the years of 1902-1967 -One of the leading African American poets of the Harlem Renaissance -Writings center on poor and working-class African Americans -Keeps his poetic language direct -Was one of the first African Americans to earn a living solely on writing

Wrote “Harlem” in 1951 One of the most powerful images in black Literature Consider—why is it a raisin and not a grape? What words in the poem evoke an emotion? What color is the poem?

Consider this allusion… Proverbs 13:12 states, “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.”

What IS the answer to the question? What happens to a dream deferred?