Category: Multi-Cultural Lit.
Thursday, November 9th – Multi-Cultural Lit
📖 Book Talk & Indie Read
🖋️ Quickwrite #32: “Peanut Butter, Jelly, & Racism” – video by The New York Times
STUDY/ACTIVITY: “Trusted 10” + thinking/reflection
WATCH: “Check Our Bias to Wreck Our Bias” – video by The New York Times
ASSIGNMENT/DEADLINE: Writing #4 – Expand a QW – build a thoughtful piece – due as an MSWord doc in Dropbox drafts due NOW (please make sure you’ve completed this over the weekend – if you haven’t already)
Wednesday, November 8th – Multi-Cultural Lit
📖 Book Talk & Indie Read
WRITE TIME ⏰
ASSIGNMENT/DEADLINE: Writing #4 – Expand a QW – build a thoughtful piece – due as an MSWord doc in Dropbox drafts no later than end of day today 11/8 (or tomorrow . . . but no in-class time after today)
Tuesday, November 7th – Multi-Cultural Lit
Read Aloud – How the Beat Was Born by Laban Carrick Hill & Theodore Taylor III – & Indie Read
ASSIGNMENT/DEADLINE: Writing #4 – Expand a QW – build a thoughtful piece – due as an MSWord doc in Dropbox drafts no later than end of day tomorrow 11/8 (more in-class write time tomorrow)
WRITE TIME ⏰
Monday, November 6th – Multi-Cultural Lit
Read Aloud – The Roots of Rap by Carole Boston Weatherford & Frank Morrison – & Indie Read
🖋️ Quickwrite #31: Big ?s about Book Club Novel – What surprised you? What’s worth talking about? What does this book have to teach me about how I should live my life?
STUDY/DISCUSSION: 🎯#3 Talk – Endgame (Big ?s) + talk built on table topics cards (or anything else pertaining to your book)
UPCOMING: Writing #3 – details tomorrow.
Friday, November 3rd – Multi-Cultural Lit
🎬 Book Trailers
UPSIDE-DOWN:
- Update What I’m Reading List & SIGN-IT board (how many books have you read?)
- Indie Read w/ Rate Calculation + reflection (thoughts, changes, new goals)
DATA COLLECT: How do you choose what to read? When & where do you read? Share something you read – “magic” or “mid”?
REVISED DEADLINE: 🎯#3 Monday 11/6 (that’s ENDGAME)
Thursday, November 2nd – Multi-Cultural Lit
📖 Book Talk & Indie Read
⌚ Reading Time
REVISED DEADLINE: 🎯#3 Monday 11/6 (that’s ENDGAME) (was TODAY)
Tuesday, October 31st – Multi-Cultural Lit
🎃 Happy Halloween! 🎃
WATCH: Jordan Peele’s film Get Out
🖋️ Quickwrite #30: Reaction/Thoughts Get Out
DEADLINE: 🎯#3 Thursday 11/2 (that’s ENDGAME)
Monday, October 30th – Multi-Cultural Lit
WATCH: Jordan Peele’s film Get Out
DEADLINE: 🎯#3 Thursday 11/2 (that’s ENDGAME)
Friday, October 27th – Multi-Cultural Lit
📖 Book Talk & Indie Read
WATCH: “Why Is Being Scared So Fun?” TED video by Margee Kerr
READ: “Jordan Peele made a woke horror film” by Bethonie Butler (Washington Post movie review – click link to read)
START: Get Out film by Jordan Peele (cont’d next week)
NEXT DEADLINE: 🎯#3 Thursday 11/2 (that’s ENDGAME)
Thursday, October 26th – Multi-Cultural Lit
📖 Book Talk & Indie Read
🖋️ Quickwrite #29: Passage/Quote Search
STUDY/DISCUSSION: 🎯#2 Talk – share passage/quote search + talk built on table topics cards (or anything else pertaining to your book)
NEXT DEADLINE: 🎯#3 Thursday 11/2 (that’s ENDGAME)
TOMORROW: Halloween Preview 🎃