Criteria: A three-page essay 
Identify ONE common theme explored in five different genres and then analyze why this ONE theme is important today and what you want your audience to know about this theme. 
To find ONE theme and five different genres/texts, you have two options:
Option #1: continue with the 50-point quiz on connecting a theme on suffering, racism and hope among five different genre/texts in unit six: Baldwin’s short story, Murray’s argument essay, historical account of blues, Hughes’ poem, and Holiday’s song.

https://poets.org/poem/weary-blues
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/2B-HUM/Readings/Baldwin-Sonnys-Blues.pdf
http://www2.lawrence.edu/library/americasmusic/bluesessay.pdf