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Short Answer
What is the American Dream? How does one achieve it or measure its success or failure? In what ways does it apply to immigration? Is it a realistic goal, or a myth?
Teaching Suggestion: Encourage students to consider how race, capitalism, and democracy factor into the definition.
Short Activity
“I, Too” by Langston Hughes considers the accessibility of the American Dream. Read the poem and brainstorm in your notes a list of words and phrases that come to mind in connection to the speaker’s tone, mood, and ideas.
Teaching Suggestion: Ask students to think of a group or organization they would have liked to belong to but have been excluded from. Then, have them model Hughes’s poem with their own topics.
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