Book talk & Indie read.  Notebook:  Book Club target 2 – a brief summary, thoughts on codeswitching and the n-word in your book.  Discuss with your group.

Next target:  Tuesday10/15

Upcoming:  a look at music videos (tomorrow) & spoken word poetry (Friday)

Read aloud & Indie read.  Collect reading & post-its from yesterday.  Watch & take notes (make a notebook page):  “How to Overcome Our Biases” TEd Talk w/ Verna Myers.

Deadline:  Book club target #2 TOMORROW!

Book talk & Indie read.  Study:  Read excerpt from Not Light, But Fire by Matt Kay (part of chapter 5) and use post-its for questions, comments, or important notices.  Bring these back to class completed tomorrow.

Upcoming:  Book Club target on Wednesday!

Book talk & Indie read.  Collected notebooks!   Book Club Target 1:  choose a passage from your book that is impt. for what happens or what is said, write it in your notebook (no more than 3 to 4 sentences), explain below WHY you picked it or what’s important about it  (what’s worth talking about here?).  Use this info to drive some conversations within your book club.  (If you’ve read ahead, be sure to not give spoilers.)

To Do:   Read toward your target for next Wednesday!

Book talk & Indie read.  Quickwrite #10: n-word – your thoughts.  Our study of n-word use: check out the following videos & articles.  Then, revisit your quickwrite and add any new insights you have.

• Black-ish – Dre & Bow discuss the word
• Black-ish – Dre debates the word at work
• Black-ish Cast Tackles Using the ‘N-Word’ in Season Premiere
• If you truly knew what the N-word meant to our ancestors, you’d NEVER use it – from The Undefeated
• Straight Talk About the N-Word from Teaching Tolerance
• Video:  from Dear White People S1:E5 (must have Netflix to view)
• “Words that don’t belong to everyone” – Ta Nehisi Coates

Deadlines:

• Notebooks collected TOMORROW!
• Next book club target is also TOMORROW – Don’t let your book group down . . . 

Booik talk & Indie read.  Study:  “How Code Switching Explains the World” by Gene Demby at NPR Code Switch.  Quickwrite #9:  “Broken English” by Jamila Lyiscott.

To Do:  Read your book club selection and head for the next target date.

Deadline:  Notebook collection THIS Friday!

Read Aloud What Do You Do with an Idea?  & Indie read.  FInd your book club groups (by book read).  Quick share about your indie reads.  Create a schedule for the reading of your book using the target dates when groups will meet.  Notebook checklists.

Target dates:

1. Books out Friday, Sept 27
2. Friday, Oct. 4
3. Wednesday, Oct. 9
4. Tuesday, Oct. 15
5. Endgame Friday, Oct. 18th

To Do:  Read your book club selection and head for the next target date.

Upcoming:  Notebook collection THIS Friday!

 

Book talk & Indie read.  Quickwrite #8:  “10 Things You Sound Like When You Say All Lives Matter in Response to Black Lives Matter” – T. Miller.  Dropbox set-up time if needed.

To Do:

• Make sure you’ve started your book club books – we’ll be forming clubs and making schedules tomorrow!

 

Video:  “The Book Was Better?” w/ John Green.  Book/Movie trailers: If I Stay by Gayle Forman, The Maze Runner by James Dashner, Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli (Love, Simon), Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, Divergent by Veronica Roth.   Reading time – Indie read or Book club.

To Do:

• Read the first 20 – 30 pages of your book club book and be prepared to set up book schedules on Monday.

Banned books video – 7 recommendations from littlebookowl.  Indie read.  Quickwrite #7:  Take A Knee by Kwame Alexander.   Book browse for book club 1 – check them out, choose a book, and sign it out before you leave.

To Do:

• Keep reading!