Book talk & Indie read.  Focus:  The N-word.  Watched video scenes from Dear White People (Netflix) & read article by Zeba Blay Why Explaining ‘The N-Word’ To Non-Black People Is So D*** Exhausting.  Quickwrite #8:  Your reactions/responses/thoughts to the video &/or article.

Assignment:  Get reading!  Plan to be FINISHED with your book by Friday 9/15.

Book talk & Indie read.  Finalization of book choices for lit. circle #1.   Quickwrite #7: codeswitching and language videos.

“Broken English” – Jamila Lyiscott

“Ebonics 101” – Steven Willis

How Codeswitching Explains the World – NPR

Assignment:  Get reading!  Plan to be FINISHED with your book by Friday 9/15.

First day of Lit. Circle #1 (YOU NEED the book of your choice OR you will be assigned a book that is available).

Book talk & Indie read.  Think about setting up a reading schedule for your novel of choice (from the 7 listed on the syllabus) by dividing the # of pages by 10 and making that your goal for each day.  Go ahead and read ahead if you want.  Mostly, consider how you would talk with your friends about a favorite TV show or movie – that’s  how you need to be able to discuss this book.  Plan to be FINISHED with your book by Friday 9/15.

Read:  My First Encounter with Racism from the youthradio website (4 essays by students).  Notebook write:  “My first (memorable) experience with racism.”

YouthRadio.org Race Relations NYT

Book trailers.  Read:  “This Far:  Notes on Love and Revolution” – Daniel Jose Older.  Notebook writing (in groups) – Note 3 spots from the text that are worth looking at more deeply and WHY.  Then consider how this piece compares to the two we read earlier in the week (DuBois & Baldwin).

10 things you sound like when you say all lives matter in response to black lives matter – T. Miller

 

Reminder:  Books needed for Lit. Circle #1 next week!!

Book talk & Indie read.  “Negro” by definition, poem by Langston Hughes & slam poem by Christian Richardson.  Read:  James Baldwin’s “The American Dream and the American Negro” 1965.  Quickwrite #6:  Reaction/Response/Thoughts-on the Baldwin piece.

The American Dream and the American Negro – Baldwin

Negro – Langston Hughes video

Negro – Christian Richardson video

Dreams Are Illegal in the Ghetto – twin poets

Reminder: Lit. circles next week.  IF you want to order a book, $ needed by tomorrow.  OR locate your own book OR borrow Things Fall Apart. 

Book talk & Indie read.  A deeper look at The Souls of Black Folk – excerpt (chapter 1) through Notebook Writing (NBW).  Explain, React/Respond, Relate/Connect, and Share.

 

Book talk & Indie read.  RLaW – “Can We Auto-Correct Humanity?” review.  Quickwrite #5: “Color Blind” – Joseph Capeheart .  Excerpt:  The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. du Bois.

WEB DuBois – Souls_of_Black_Folk

Assignment:  Finish reading Chapter 1 (read it all again if you need to).  If you’d like to read along to audio, check it out HERE .

 

Read Aloud – “Last Stop on Market Street” by Matt de la Pena.  Indie read. Quickwrite #4: Low Battery – Prince EA Discussion/notes:  “What is writing?”  RLaW revisited w/ practice annotation.

Read Like a Writer

Can We Auto-Correct Humanity? – Prince EA

Assignment:  Annotate the piece with what you notice about HOW it is written (not just what it says).  Use the RLaW slide to help guide you.

If you HAVE NOT yet shared a Dropbox folder, do so & if you HAVE NOT decided which book to read for lit circle, make sure you decide and either order ($) or find it THIS WEEK!

 

 

 

Lit. Circle #1 preview day!

Choose your read for lit. circle one – book needed by Tuesday, Sept 5th.  (You can find your book of choice on your own or order through Mrs. C. next week.  See prices below).  I encourage you to choose what “calls” to you, talk it up with classmates, too.  No lone-wolf reading.

 The Color Purple by Alice Walker $10

 Solo by Kwame Alexander $14

 Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon $10

 Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward $12

 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe $10 OR borrow from GCHS for FREE

 The Hate U Give  by Angie Thomas $13

 All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely $10

AND make sure you have created and shared a Dropbox folder with Mrs. C.

 

Book talk & Indie read.  Dropbox folder updates – If you haven’t signed up and shared a folder, please do so today.   Thoughts on the inverse and symbiotic relationships of reading and writing. Quickwrite #3 – “Why did carnage in Charlottesville happen? Because we lie to ourselves” by Leonard Pitts, Jr. Charlottesville – Leonard Pitts QW  Intro to Read like a writer (RLaW) concepts.

Tomorrow: Lit. circle #1 book intros.