Complementary activity- Reading and comprehension 

“Negro" -  by Langston Hughes

I am a Negro:
Black as the night is black,
Black like the depths of my Africa.

I’ve been a slave:
Caesar told me to keep his door-steps clean.
I brushed the boots of Washington.

I’ve been a worker:
Under my hand the pyramids arose.
I made mortar for the Woolworth Building.

I’ve been a singer:
All the way from Africa to Georgia
I carried my sorrow songs.
I made ragtime.

I’ve been a victim:
The Belgians cut off my hands in the Congo.
They lynch me still in Mississippi.

I am a Negro:
Black as the night is black,
Black like the depths of my Africa.

Exercise:

After Reading:

Answer the questions about the text:

1-According to the text, which view shows the author about the people of Africa?

2- What is the prevailing verb tense in the text? Copy verses of the poem that show this.

3- What kind of text is this?

4- Who wrote the text above?

5- What is this text about?