Questions 1.Name the website you found the poem on. 2.What is the name of the poem? 3.

Whos is the author of the poem? 4.Insert a picture of the author.

Answers We found the poem on www.ctadams.com The name of the poem is called Family Secrets. Toi Derricotte wrote the poem.
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5.What does the title tell you about the poem?

6.Expalin the first thing you notice about the poem? 7.Why did you select the poem? How did it interest or inspire you?

To us the title of the poem tells us that families keep the secrets between them. Sort of like a group. The first thing we noticed about the poem was that it relates to other families. We chose the poem because we felt like we could relate to it. It interested and inspired us by the detail and

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Dear Ms.Melendrez, Black history is a month when we celebrate those who changed racism over time. For example, Martin Luther King gave rights to African Americans who were discriminated and went through the struggles. We celebrate black history because its important how African Americans deserve rights in this world with out being discriminated. I have selected a poem from a African American writer to honor those with hard work. I selected the poem Family Secrets because it relates to any family whether of lets say different kinds.

Written by Toi Derricotte

F Family Secrets They told my cousin Rowena not to marryCalvinshe was too

Family Secrets

young, just eighteen, & he was too dark, too too dark, as if he had been washed in what we wanted to wipe off our hands. Besides, he didn't come from a good family. He said he was going to be a lawyer, but we didn't quite believe. The night they eloped to the Gotham Hotel, the whole house whispered as if we were ashamed to tell it to ourselves. My aunt and uncle rushed down to the Gotham to pleadwe couldn't imagine his hands on her! Families are conceived in many ways. The night my cousin Calvin lay down on her that idol with its gold skin broke, & many of the gods we loved in secret were freed.