Engage your middle school students in American poems of the Harlem Renaissance that resonate with current events. This poetry unit is based on the TPCASTT poetry analysis model: Title, Paraphrase, Connotations, Attitude (tone), Shift, Title revisited, and Theme. The lessons use guided close reading of Langston Hughes’s poems "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "Dreams," "Mother to Son," and "Harlem" (Dream Deferred). Product FeaturesEngaging slideshow for each poem with critical thinking questionsInte