Catalogued teaching resource
CommonLit: Mother to Son by Langston Hughes
By CommonLit
- Collection
- Instructional Guides
- Subject
- English Language Arts
- Grades
- Grades 6-9
- Format
- Lesson Page
- Curriculum
- Curriculum alignment not recorded
- Publisher or host
- commonlit.org
- Source language
- English
Classroom fit
CommonLit module with full text, guided reading questions, discussion questions. Direct paired-poem resource for Thank You M’am: Mrs. Jones as the mother-figure delivering hard-earned wisdom to a young person. In the fictional 1958 Harlem: a bookworm sitting on the stoop of a boarding house hears an older woman reciting these words to her son. Free with educator account.
Open resource on commonlit.org