📖 Book Talk & Indie Read

🖋️ Quickwrite #28: Two Music Videos – watch & react on the page

DEADLINE: Book Club Novel 🎯#2 Thursday 10/26 – TOMORROW!

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🖋️ Quickwrite #27: N-word (your thoughts + reprise after videos)

STUDY: A look at how Blackish (ABC TV) & Dear White People (Netflix) address the n-word in television/streaming episodes + Tanehisi Coates interviewed on his book tour (watch videos below)

Netflix’s Dear White People, Season 1: Episode 5 (about 20 minutes in)

QW 27+ : Revisit your earlier quickwrite with new thoughts

NEXT DEADLINE: Book Club Novel 🎯#2 Thursday 10/26 – KEEP READING!

🎬Book Trailers & Indie Read

🖋️ Quickwrite #26: “Are You Racist?” Marlon James for The Guardian

⌚ Reading Time

NEXT DEADLINE: Book Club Novel 🎯#2 Thursday 10/26

TO-DO: Student Paths Survey (link on GClassroom – directions on handout in-class)

IN-CLASS ASSIGNMENT: Book Recommendation Slip – Fill one out & turn it in 🙂

⌚ Reading Time

NEXT DEADLINE: Book Club Novel 🎯#2 Thursday 10/26

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🖋️ Quickwrite #25: Your Book Club Novel #2 – What’s worth talking about?

STUDY/DISCUSSION: 🎯#1 Talk – share “what’s worth talking about?” + talk built on table topics cards (or anything else pertaining to your book)

NEXT DEADLINE: 🎯#2 Thursday 10/26

TOMORROW: A Survey + Reading Recommendation + Reading Time ⌚

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🖋️ Quickwrite #24: “3 Ways to Speak English” by Jamila Lyiscott

STUDY/READ: “How Codeswitching Explains the World” by Gene Demby – NPR Podcast Introduction (click to link)

DEADLINE: Book Club Novel #2 – Target 🎯1 TOMORROW 10/19!!!

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🖋️ Quickwrite #23: Bias/Stereotype Thinking (random picture exercise – see Mrs. C for a photo)

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DEADLINE: Book Club Novel #2 – Target 🎯1 Thursday 10/19!!!

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🖋️ Quickwrite #22: 1st Impressions (book club novel #2)

NEW: Schedule and targets for reading of book club novel #2

• 🎯1: Thur. 10/19 🎯2: Thur. 10/26 🎯3: Thur. 11/2
• Everything Everything 🎯1: 110 🎯2: 221 🎯3: 306
• American Street 🎯1: 117 🎯2: 227 🎯3: 329
• Monday’s Not Coming 🎯1: 157 🎯2: 309 🎯3: 435
• All American Boys 🎯1: 120 🎯2: 225 🎯3: 312

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PAST DUE: Mid-term Reflection Survey (from Friday – find it on GClassroom) complete ASAP (if you haven’t yet. . . )

TO-DO: Mid-Term Reflection Survey (Find it on GClassroom & answer thoughtfully. It matters.)

⌚ Reading Time

ASSIGNMENT/READING TARGET 🎯: Read the first 20 – 30 pages of your Book Club #2 novel (Monday’s Not Coming, American Street, Everything Everything, or All American Boys) before class on Monday.

REMINDER: Friday 10/13 TODAY – is the last day of the quarter! If you need to write stuff – as in past due assignments – do it! (and then email Mrs. C that it’s complete and in Dropbox)

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STUDY/NOTES: “How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them” – Vernā Myers TED Talk

BOOK ISSUE: Book Club #2 selections 🙂 Read the first 20 – 30 pages by class on Monday!

UPCOMING: Mid-term reflection survey tomorrow (& extra reading time 🙂 )

REMINDER: Friday 10/13 – TOMORROW – is the last day of the quarter! If you need to write stuff, do it! (and then email Mrs. C that it’s complete and in Dropbox)