BW 5/12: Write two topics and one theme from this poem by Countee Cullen 1) Hey, Black Child
Do you know who you are?
Who you really are?
Do you know you can be
What you want to be
If you try to be
What you can be?
2) Hey, Black Child
Do you know where you are going?
Where you're really going?
Do you know you can learn
What you want to learn
If you try to learn
What you can learn?
3) Hey, Black Child.
Do you know you are strong?
I mean really strong?
Do you know you can do
What you want to do
If you try to do
What you can do?
4) Hey, Black Child
Be what you can be
Learn what you must learn.
Do what you can do
And tomorrow your nation
Will be what you what it to be.

Read the selection below and answer the question. an open boat by alfred noyes o, what is that whimpering there in the darkness? 

 'let him lie in my arms. he is breathing, i know.
 look. i'll wrap all my hair round his neck' – the sea's rising,
 the boat must be lightened. he's dead. he must go.' 


 see - quick - by that flash, where the bitter foam tosses, 
 the cloud of white faces, in the black open boat, 
 and the wild pleading woman that clasps her dead lover 
 and wraps her loose hair round his breast and his throat.
 'come, lady, he's dead.' - 'no, i feel his heart beating,
 he's living, i know. but he's numbed with the cold. 
 see, i'm wrapping my hair all around him to warm him.' -
- 'no. we can't keep the dead, dear. come, loosen your hold.

 'come. loosen your fingers.' - 'o god, let me keep him! ' -
 o, hide it, black night! let the winds have their way! 
 and there are no voices or ghosts from that darkness, 
 to fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. which choice best describes the conflict in this poem? the winds are rocking the boat. a man is thrown into the sea. a woman doesn’t want to let go of her dead lover. someone is crying in the darkness.

Which phrase from the poem "when you are old" leads the reader to infer that the subject was admired for her beauty by many, but only truly loved by him? a. "old and grey" b. "a little sadly" c. "their shadows deep" d. "with love false or true"

Me ! one reader of sorrentino's story said, "it reminded me that everyone can have a different perspective and a different response to the same event, and that response can change over time." in at least two hundred words, explain what you think this means.