Category: Multi-Cultural Lit.
Multi-Cultural Lit – Friday, December 13th
Read aloud & Indie read. MG Writing Assign: review social justice definition & issues, Dear Reader info (see slide below), continued work time
Deadlines:
- Mrs. C would PREFER your writing by end of the weekend, but firm due date is end of day Monday 12/16! You should have Pieces #1 – 6 and your “Dear Reader” in our shared Dropbox folder.
- Notebooks collected Monday 12/16
Final Exam: If you need to take the final (missed more than 4 days and/or have a discipline record this semester). Wednesday 12/18 from 8am to 10am (we’ll do the kinds of things we do in class, read, write, & think – no studyguide, no memorizing).
GOOD NEWS!! You can still check out books over Winter Break! Whether you want to finish up whatever you’ve started or check out a couple of extras to read while you have a break from school. Just return them next semester to room 251.
Multi-Cultural Lit – Thursday, December 12th
Indie read. Time for work on writing assignment – Pieces #5 & 6.
Upcoming: pull writing together w/ “Dear Reader,” on Friday
Deadlines:
- Multi-genre Writing pieces + letter due by end of Sunday 12/15
- Notebooks collected Monday 12/16
Final Exam: If you need to take the final (missed more than 4 days and/or have a discipline record this semester). Wednesday 12/18 from 8am to 10am (we’ll do the kinds of things we do in class, read, write, & think – no studyguide, no memorizing).
GOOD NEWS!! You can still check out books over Winter Break! Whether you want to finish up whatever you’ve started or check out a couple of extras to read while you have a break from school. Just return them next semester to room 251.
Multi-Cultural Lit – Wednesday, December 11th
Indie read. Quickwrite #28: “Peanut Butter, Jelly and Racism” & “Check Our Bias to Wreck Our Bias” Time for work on writing assignment – Pieces #5 & 6. Notebook checklist.
Upcoming: pull writing together w/ “Dear Reader,” on Friday
Deadlines:
- Multi-genre Writing pieces + letter due by end of Sunday 12/15
- Notebooks collected Monday 12/16
Final Exam: If you need to take the final (missed more than 4 days and/or have a discipline record this semester). Wednesday 12/18 from 8am to 10am (we’ll do the kinds of things we do in class, read, write, & think – no studyguide, no memorizing).
GOOD NEWS!! You can still check out books over Winter Break! Whether you want to finish up whatever you’ve started or check out a couple of extras to read while you have a break from school. Just return them next semester to room 251.
Multi-Cultural Lit – Tuesday, December 10th
Indie read. Study: “The Danger of a Single Story” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – make a notes page and then add your own thoughts/reactions as well
Upcoming:
- work on multi-genre writing project.
- Notebook checklists later this week (collected Monday 12/16)
Multi-Cultural Lit – Monday, December 9th
Book talk & Indie read. Book Club target 4 – ENDGAME. Talking w/ a Text to spark group discussions.
Upcoming:
- “The Danger of a Single Story” and work on multi-genre writing project.
- Notebook checklists later this week (collected Monday 12/16)
Multi-Cultural Lit – Friday, December 6th
Book talk & Indie read. Quickwrite #27: Muslims Read Hate Comments (video) Read: “The Green Zone Rabbit” by Hassan Blasim
Deadline: Book Club endgame is MONDAY 12/9. Make that book a priority. Don’t let your book club down. 🙂
Multi-Cultural Lit – Thursday, December 5th
Book talk & Indie read. Quickwrite #26: “Conversations on Race w/ Latinos” NYTimes. Reading time (instead of book club target #3)
Deadline: Book Club endgame is MONDAY 12/9. Make that book a priority. Don’t let your book club down. 🙂
Multi-Cultural Lit – Wednesday, December 4th
Read aloud & Indie read. Study: Big moves/ Small moves with “What Did My Mother the Chemist See in Betty Crocker?” by Celeste Ng. (clip-in your notebook)
Deadline: Next book club target #3 – TOMORROW!
Multi-Cultural Lit – Tuesday, December 3rd
Book talk & Indie read. Quickwrite #25: video “6 Photographers – 1 Man” Study: read “The Lone Ranger & Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” by Sherman Alexie. Build a notebook page based on ?s “what surprised you? what did you notice? what did you wonder? (and/or what confused you?)”
Upcoming: next book club target – Thursday 12/5
Multi-Cultural Lit – Monday, December 2nd
Book talk & Indie read. Quickwrite #24: “Conversations on Race w/ Native Americans” NYTimes. Book Club target #2: table topics cards to spark discussion and create a notebook entry.
Upcoming: next book club target – Thursday 12/5