Reflection 8/16/21

 Today in Mr. Rease’s class we learned how to make inferences about literary text. The example we used was a poem titled “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” It was written by Langston Hughes in the 1920s. There were a lot of lessons and themes that you could get from the poem that were not explicit. For example, the theme I got from the poem was that black people have been through a lot, while one of my classmates got that we shouldn’t judge everything we see. Other classmates found a different theme in the poem. It was a good lesson and hopefully next time I read a poem I will be able to understand the theme better by looking at the symbolism in the poem, and making inferences based on that.

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