Thank You, Ma'am

On March 9th, we read the story "Thank You, Ma'am" by Langston Hughes. The short story is about a young boy named Roger who attempts to steal the person of an older lady named Luella Bates Washington Jones. Roger was trying to steal the purse to get money to buy new blue suede shoes. Mrs. Luella grabs Roger by the collar and drags him back to her home. Roger believes that he is in great double; however, Mrs. Luella surprises Roger with her kindness and generosity. To read the short story, click here.

After reading the short story, we were told to make one of the characters in the story using whatever materials we wanted to. After we created our characters, we were supposed to write a diamante poem. A diamante poem looks like a diamond when it is written. A diamante poem is made up of 7 lines. Line 1 has the beginning stubject. Line 2 has two describing words about line 1. Line 3 has three doing words about line 1. Line 4 has a short phrase about line 1 and a short phrase about line 7. Line 5 has three doing words about line 7. Line 6 has two describing words about line 7. Finally, line 7 has the end subject.

I ran out of time and was only able to make my character. The character I chose to make was Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones. I chose to make Luella and included her big bag as well because that was important to the story.


Even though I never wrote the poem for this activity, I think that it would be very beneficial in a classroom. I enjoyed getting to make a character from the story because it allowed me to create what I thought the character would look like. I also think that it would be beneficial in a classroom because students could then use their character to help them write the poem. I think that my doll of Luella would have helped me create my poem, so I think that having this in a classroom would be a great activity.




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