On "The Weary Blues" In The Big Sea Hughes reported that his "Weary Blues," which won him his first poetry prize, "included the first blues [he's] ever heard way back in Lawrence, Kansas, when [he] was a kid." In "The Weary Blues" Hughes dealt with the blues singer and his song in relation to the speaker of the poem.
There once was a kid named John. He was a young and adventurous kid. One day he went into the forest. He was sort of peculiar about it. His friends told him stories that there was a witch who made kids like him disappear. He wanted to prove them wrong that there wasn’t a witch. He soon came across an old, creaky house. He went inside, trying not to make a sound. He tried to see what was inside with his flash light. As soon as he turned around, he saw something dash across the hallway. He was curious. It looked like a dog to him. He went into the room that the thing went it. The witch was standing there, waiting for him. He grabbed John and tied him to the chair. She was stirring a potion. John was trying to yell for help, but he couldn’t. He was too deep into the forest. The witch forced him to drink the potion. Then … POOF! He disappeared, and John was never to be seen again.
A collaborative discussion is a group of people identifying factors in an issue. To evaluate a collaborative discussion may include the following factors: the discussion must include others; develop a sense of audience that others will be scrutinizing your information; learning about writing conventions with peers; focusing on readers' expectations and not just rules; improving the writer's analysis techniques; being able to answers others' questions about material; improving their prose by teaching it to others.
