This document provides guidance and examples for determining themes or central ideas in texts and providing objective summaries. It examines two poems by Langston Hughes that both deal with the theme of dreams. Students are instructed to identify the top two important words and themes in each poem, as well as evidence of those themes. They are also asked to write an objective summary of the text.
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1. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2: Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their
development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex
account; provide an objective summary of the text.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.2: Assessment
Comparing Theme: Langston Hughes Poetry
Dreams
Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
Top 2 Important Words
Theme Evidence
Objective Summary:
2. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2: Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their
development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex
account; provide an objective summary of the text.
Harlem (Dream Deferred)
Langston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Top 2 Important Words
Theme Evidence
Objective Summary:
3. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.11-12.2: Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their
development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex
account; provide an objective summary of the text.
Dreams Similarities Harlem