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**__ Antonio Reveron __** **__Sonnet__** I have to do homework on the weekends. It justs takes away my time to have fun. So many mathematic twists and bends. I cannot go out to play in the sun.

Do they really have to give us homework? You might as well send that stuff in the mail. All of you teachers are a bunch of jerks. All of this work is making my face pale.

You know what, man? I'll just skip all this work. I'll just lay back in my green easy chair. And I am going to cut down the torque and to just lay back and have some good air.

A lesson to all teachers in the world Homework is just a way for us to get bored.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">** __Ode to Baseball__ ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">It’s America’s past time, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Where players earn a dime. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">A sport of rivals, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">With escalating vitals, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">As players play their hardest, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">To become the best. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">The crack of the bat, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Fans with their team’s hat, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">The roar of the crowd, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Which can be pretty loud, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">And stadium lights <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">These are the sounds and sights, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Of a popular sport, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">For a family resort.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">__**I Was Raised With...**__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">I was raised with balanced meals, medium well, and pumpkin pie that's so good, it puts me in a happy mood.

I was raised with buzzcuts, no wacky styles and/ or colors, someone (somehow) with dandriff, one sweep, and it's snowing from my head.

I was raised with jeans and t-shirts, which is "normal clothing." No skin-tight jeans, no shirts with major decals (Except Nike), nothing but normal clothing.

I was raised with just laying back, video games, no major bling bling and accessories, and "forever alone."

I was raised with a tall posture, a built body frame, of 150 pounds, and 6 feet tall.

I was raised with all this... this is what I am.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;">**__Poem: "I, too, sing America" by Langston Hughes__** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;">I, too, sing America. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;">I am the darker brother. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;">They send me to eat in the kitchen <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;">When company comes, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;">But I laugh, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;">And eat well, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;">And grow strong. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;">Tomorrow, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;">I'll be at the table <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;">When company comes. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;">Nobody'll dare <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;">Say to me, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;">"Eat in the kitchen," <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;">Then. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;">Besides, <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;">They'll see how beautiful I am <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;">And be ashamed-- <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;">I, too, am America. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; text-align: left;">**__Deeper Understanding__** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">“I, too, sing America” by Langston Hughes achieves determination and pride by using a tone that shows determination. The narrator talks about how he’s put into the kitchen when “guests” come over because of his race, “I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes…” He seems displeased, but he also doesn’t care. But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong.” As long as he got his health, he’s okay. It’s like one of those moments where you are pushed away. On the outside, you feel sad and mad because you are different, and on the inside, you feel like you are determined prove them what you are made of. In the next stanza, he tells us just that. “Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then.” He’s ready to puff his chest out, and he ready to talk strict tone saying, “I will not, and I repeat, I will not eat in kitchen. All I want to do is greet the guests, and sit and eat with them. To socialize.” He says in such an angry way. He wants to meet the guess and tell them about himself, and when he does… “They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed…” They will be proven wrong of keeping him in the kitchen. When he succeeds, he would have his arms crossed over his chest, thinking, “I’ve done it, and I really am worth their time.”

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__**Poem: "Madam and her Madam" by Langston Hughes**__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">I worked for a woman, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">She wasn't mean— <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">But she had a twelve-room <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">House to clean.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Had to get breakfast, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Dinner, and supper, too— <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Then take care of her children <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">When I got through.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Wash, iron, and scrub, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Walk the dog around— <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">It was too much, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Nearly broke me down.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">I said, Madam, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Can it be <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">You trying to make a <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Pack-horse out of me?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">She opened her mouth. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">She cried, Oh, no! <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">You know, Alberta, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">I love you so!

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">I said, Madam, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">That may be true— <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">But I'll be dogged <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">If I love you!

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**__Deeper Understanding__** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Madam and her Madam" by Langston Hughes achieves fairness and inequality. The narrator starts off in a casual kind of voice. The things she does in the first six lines is something she does everyday. Then, she sounds annoyed. "It was too much, nearly broke me down." She's been doing so many chores, that she can't take anymore of it. When she encounters "her Madam," she tells her in a tone that is strict, " You trying to make a pack horse out of me?" Like the hand comes down on a hard surface, and you've had enough of it. Then, she tries to sugarcoat it by saying, "You know, Alberta, I love you so!" She won't buy it. "She'll be dogged if I love her."

__**Poem: "Dreams" by 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.

"Dreams" by Langston Hughes achieves passion and determination. The poem is spoken with passion, to make those who read this poem not have a life that is "empty." To accomplish your dreams. To live life at its fullest.
 * __Deeper Understanding__**