6th Period: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
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- #1Class Roster: NDHS, English III Period 6
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- #2Assignment One
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- #3Period 6: The Great Gatsby (Chapter I)
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- #4Period 6: The Great Gatsby (Chapter II)
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- #86th Period: Langston Hughes’s “I, Too, Sing America”
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- #106th Period: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
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- #11Period 6: The Great Gatsby (Chapter V)”
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- #12Period 6: The Great Gatsby (Chapter IX)
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- #13Period 6: The Great Gatsby (Chapter VIII)
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- #14Period 6: The Great Gatsby (Chapter VII)
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6th Period: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Mr. Z
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Written in 1920, shortly after the 18 year-old author graduated high school. One of Hughes’s prominent influences at this early point in his career was Carl Sandburg.
6th Period: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” Annotated
I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
Flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.
I've known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.