Dialect and extended metaphor

Today we discussed the dialect of the poem "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes.  We discussed how the dialect of the poem makes it so much more meaningful and powerful.

My sixth period class compared the mother in the poem to the woman in the photograph on page 510.

We then wrote our own extended metaphors, comparing life to something else.  It had to be a metaphor about life and had to be at least 5 lines long.  Life actually had to be something else.

Remember--tomorrow we will be PSAT testing in periods one through four!