Tuesday, 1/10:Welcome back! Five new words today (abjure, abrogate, abstemious, acumen, antebellum); free write about identity; listen to This American Life: “Shouting Across the Divide” (start 41:25 into program); free write response to program; read five new poems (“On Being Brought from Africa to America” by PhillisWheatley; “Frederick Douglass” by Robert Hayden; “Learning to Love America” by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim; ”Race” by Elizabeth Alexander; “I, Too, Sing America” by Langston Hughes); HW: vocabulary flashcards due Thursday; set 4 grammar corrections due Friday (sentences only — bring questions!); vocabulary sentences (remember format? if not, ask!) due Friday; find a poem about “race” at www.poetryfoundation.org for Friday to share in small groups; write an original poem (topic is race/identity) due Tuesday!
Wednesday, 1/11: Start Frederick Douglass’ Narrative (class sets of this book, but it is also available full text, link to left)
and…check out this short TEDX talk (start paying real attention around minute 6): http://blog.onbeing.org/post/14507132103/jay-smooth-ted-talk-about-race-and-pockets-of
Thursday, 1/12: flashcards due; Narrative
Friday, 1/13: set 4 grammar paragraph quiz; poet research project — topics due today (parent signature); sentences due; race poems to share due; Narrative
