Happy 110th Langston Hughes

A late happy 110^th birthday of Langston Hughes!

Thanks to his words, “Bring me all of your dreams, you dreamers,” and many others, we’re still dreaming today.

February 1, his birthday, is the “official start” of the 2012 Dream Flag Project.  Of course you can make your Dream Flags any time before April when we all connect.

Here’s a link to a great site that’s about Hughes and student voices. It can be adapted for different ages. We like it because The Dream Flag Project is all about giving student dreams a voice and a place to be heard.

http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/poets-voice-langston-hughes-and-you

Here’s another one to a page on our site with lesson ideas on specific Hughes poems. (You can find most of the poems on the web.)
http://www.dreamflags.org/create/HughesPoemIdeas-PP.htm

Thanks to all of you who have signed up so far. And we’d love to hear from you if you haven’t yet.

Here’s the link to sign up. (Remember even if you did the Project before, we need you to sign up again. Thanks.)

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5W3LFSN

And for when you’re getting started on The Dream Flag Project, here’s a page with Ideas for the First Week.

http://www.dreamflags.org/news/TimelyTeacherResources/FirstWeekIdeas.htm