Students must answer one question from one of the following authors. Each set of discussion questions for each author presents students with a number of questions. Students only need to answer one question from that list; however, everyone can’t answer the same question. Students must sign up and choose which author and which question they will answer; there is a limited number of slots for each question, so students should sign up as early as possible to get the author/question they want.

Langston Hughes

How does Hughes’s poetry define what it means to be an American? How is the American identity presented in these poems and what does that reveal about the lives of African Americans at this time? Use textual evidence in answers.