Read Theme for English B by Langston Hughes.

Read Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes.

Write at least three pages using MLA form

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Create paragraphs that are 7-10 sentences in length
Include a Works Cited page
Get evidence from the story and blend these quotes into your writing to support your analysis (do not merely paraphrase)
Sparingly paraphrase andsummarize—as needed
Come up with your own ideas and views / use the Internet in a limited fashion
Include at least one (1) secondary quote (from an outside source) about the story
DO NOT MERELY summarize but rather analyze
Write objectively (no “I” “In my opinion” “you” and “we”)

Question for “Theme for English B”:

The speaker in the poem uses the word “true” three times. Why? Discuss what true/truth means to him in the poem.

REMEMBER TO:

Use MLA formatting.
Make sure to give examples/evidence from the stories to support your position/thesis statement.
Be sure to include an outside source.
Include a Works Cited page.

POEM is on the next page

Theme for English B

Langston Hughes, 1902 – 1967

The instructor said,

Go home and write

a page tonight.

And let that page come out of you—

Then, it will be true.

I wonder if it’s that simple?

I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem.

I went to school there, then Durham, then here

to this college on the hill above Harlem.

I am the only colored student in my class.

The steps from the hill lead down into Harlem,

through a park, then I cross St. Nicholas,

Eighth Avenue, Seventh, and I come to the Y,

the Harlem Branch Y, where I take the elevator

up to my room, sit down, and write this page:

It’s not easy to know what is true for you or me

at twenty-two, my age. But I guess I’m what

I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you:

hear you, hear me—we two—you, me, talk on this page.

(I hear New York, too.) Me—who?

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.

I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

I like a pipe for a Christmas present,

or records—Bessie, bop, or Bach.

I guess being colored doesn’t make me not like

the same things other folks like who are other races.

So will my page be colored that I write?

Being me, it will not be white.

But it will be

a part of you, instructor.

You are white—

yet a part of me, as I am a part of you.

That’s American.

Sometimes perhaps you don’t want to be a part of me.

Nor do I often want to be a part of you.

But we are, that’s true!

As I learn from you,

I guess you learn from me—

although you’re older—and white—

and somewhat more free.

This is my page for English B.