Poetry Out Loud...

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Today in AP Lit, my classmates read the poems they chose by Maya Angelou. Overall, I think my classmates did a great job on reciting their poems giving the time we were given. On tomorrow I will reciting my poem by Maya Angelou “On Aging”. Hopefully, I can bring it to life as good as my classmates did.

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