Banned Books Week Video & Indie Read w/ padlet check-in 🙂

NOTES & Reactions: watch Verna Myers “How to Overcome Our Biases” TEd Talk and think about your own implicit bias… we all have some.

NEXT WEEK: Writing #2 – We’ll be expanding something from our notebooks. So, if you are behind, use the weekend to catch up your notebook entries. Check them out at the tab above that reads “English 9/10 Notebook Checklist.”

Banned Books Week Video & Indie Read.

Quickwrite #12: “Change the World by Changing Yourself” (click the link below)

Change the World by Changing Yourself

Read: Finish All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely. If you missed class, you can find a pdf to help you catch up posted as material in GClassroom).

At the conclusion of reading the book: on the same page as QW#12 record your thoughts about this novel. Did you like it? Why? Why not? Could you connect to it? Did it help you understand anything? Give it 3 minutes in your notebook.

Writing #2 – assignment preview. We’ll be working on this next week.

Banned Books Week Video & Indie Read.

Read: More All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely. If you missed class, you can find a pdf to help you catch up posted as material in GClassroom). We read to the bottom of page 299.

UPCOMING: We’ll finish our class novel tomorrow, do some related thinking, and soon be working on Writing #2.

Banned Books Week Video & Indie Read.

Read: More All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely. If you missed class, you can find a pdf to help you catch up posted as material in GClassroom). We read to mid-page 276.

Book Talk & Indie Read.

Read: More All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely. If you missed class, you can find a pdf to help you catch up posted as material in GClassroom). We read to the top of page 254.

Book Trailers & Indie Read w/ padlet check-in. Extra reading time today!!!

 (If you are in 8th hour and want to check out the book trailers, see GClassroom stream for today).

Read Aloud & Indie Read.

Read: More All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely. If you missed class, you can find a pdf to help you catch up posted as material in GClassroom). We read to the bottom of page 231.

Book Talk & Indie Read.

Read: More All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely. If you missed class, you can find a pdf to help you catch up posted as material in GClassroom). We read to page 211.

Book Talk & Indie Read.

Quickwrite #11: “The Thunder” by Lt. Harry Fagel

Read: More All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely. If you missed class, you can find a pdf to help you catch up posted as material in GClassroom). We read to page 193.

Read Aloud & Indie Read.

Read: More All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely. If you missed class, you can find a pdf to help you catch up posted as material in GClassroom). We read to page 174.

REMINDERS: All who still ower Writing #1 (the letter) – please sbumit in GClassroom ASAP.