Harlem by Langston Hughes

Today we had a Junior teacher(?) named Ms. Cook teach us today. We wrote a paragraph for the bellringer on the board, which asked about what the word oppression is and to list some examples of it. After we answered that question, we analyzed a poem by Langston Hughes called "Harlem". We then had a few discussions around discrimination and oppression, and were given candy. I picked the midnight milky way in the bag. It's been a while since I had those and they were very good. Then we wrote on a heart shaped paper what our dreams were. We did nothing for the last 20 minutes of class I worked on my classwork/homework from Geometry, and my slides for the project due on Friday. I'm already on my 4th out of 10 slides.

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