What is your American Dream? What do you like most about America?

Prompt Response: My American dream is the opportunity to build the life I want. I don't know what I want in the future, but I want the opportunity to pursue and make it happen. I like that America has rights and opportunities that most don't. I also like that it is a place of opportunities and that the bottom can still be successful. 

Summary: Today in class, we studied Langston Hughes's "Let America Be America Again." After the lesson, we started a project on the American dream. 

Reflection: I thought it was cool talking about the American dream and what we thought it was.  

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