Category: Multi-Cultural Lit.

Multi-Cultural Lit – Wednesday, September 25th

Banned Books Week video – ClimbtheStacks recommendations.  Indie read.  Book club books book talks continued: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon, Monday’s Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson, All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely, & American Street by Ibi Zoboi.  (Dear Martin & With the Fire on High yesterday).

Upcoming:  Tomorrow you’ll have a bit of time to browse these book choices and then commit to your book club choice – please don’t pick a title you have already read.  And no lone-wolf reading, you’ll need at the least a partner in crime.

To Do:

  • Create and share Dropbox folders (If you need to create a separate gmail account for this, go to gmail.com and do so.)
  • Keep reading!

 

Multi-Cultural Lit – Tuesday, September 24th

Video:  On the Banning of Looking for Alaska.  Indie read.  Synthesis Notes:  using columns make notes on DuBois, Baldwin, & Older pieces we read (check titles, keywords, associated historical movements/people, impt. quotes & then draw connections).  Book club books book talks: Dear Martin by Nic Stone & With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo (more choices tomorrow).

To Do:

  • Create and share Dropbox folders (If you need to create a separate gmail account for this, go to gmail.com and do so.)
  • Read something — ANYTHING

Multi-Cultural Lit. – Friday, September 20th

Book talk & Indie read.  Quickwrite #5:  Indie read ?s .  Read:  “This Far: Notes on Love and Revolution” by DJ Older from The Fire This Time.   Begin annotations by highlighting 3 spots you thought were thought-provoking or important.

To Do:

  • Reread today’s piece (or really any of this week’s reading) if you need a deeper understaning.  We will be thinking/discussing these works collectively top of next week.
  • Read something awesome!

Dropbox Update:  I still don’t have resolution on getting verifications for email addresses at your school email addresses.  At this point, IF you have another gmail and would like to use it for Dropbox setup, go ahead.  (You can even create a gmail for free for this purpose if you want).  DO NOT sign up using another email server as you will then have problems logging in on the chromebooks, which we will need to do later in the semester.

Multi-Cultural Lit – Thursday, September 19th

Book talk & Indie read.  Quickwrite #4:  The American Dream.  Read:  James Baldwin’s “The American Dream and the American Negro”

To Do:

  • Hang on to all the handouts from this week.  We will be putting the reading together for discussion on Monday.
  • Read something awesome!

Reminder:  TOMORROW is the last day to bring Mrs. C post-its and/or scotch tape if you’d like late HW passes in exchange (max 2 per student)

Upcoming:  Book club #1 next week – more info to follow.

Multi-Cultural Lit – Wednesday, September 18th

Book talk & Indie read (briefly share about your indie read to those you are seated with today).  Finish reading excerpt from The Souls of Black Folk – chapter 1.  Notebook:  make a notebook entry that starts with one of the important quotes we highlighted – copy it into your notebook and then react, respond, relate to it.  Group discussions about these quotes and what you wrote.

Read something splendid.

Reminder:  Two more days to bring Mrs. C post-its and/or scotch tape if you’d like late HW passes in exchange (max 2 per student).

Multi-Cultural Lit. – Monday, September 16th

Book talk & Indie read. Quickwrite #3: “Colorblind” by Joseph Capehart.  Intro to black authors study  Read: Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois forethougt.

To Do:

If you know you might struggle, feel free to read ahead into chapter 1 of Souls (which we will read in class tomorrow).  Otherwise, read something fantastic.

*complete the notebook entry on Friday’s reading if you haven’t already