A Case for Reparations

Today in class we began with a quiz about Coates' article.
We then had a discussion about the our conclusions surrounding Do the Right Thing.
Then, the rest of the class was spent pulling apart Coates' article by using this WORKSHEET.
Here is a link to the electronic version of the Coates article and here is a printable version.

Do the Right Thing

Yesterday in class we began the film Do the Right Thing. We'll be finishing it today.  Homework due today was to read, annotate and respond to sections V-VII of The Case for Reparations.  For Friday you have two tasks:
1) Finish reading and annotating the rest of The Case for Reparations. You do not need to do a final journal response. We'll develop those in class.
2) Complete a typed journal entry in response to these Do the Right Thing PROMPTS.
Here are the lyrics to Public Enemy's Fight the Power
If you're interested in some of the people who Spike Lee dedicated his film to, here are some links:
Eleanor Bumpurs 
Michael Griffith 
Yvonne Smallwood 
Edmund Perry
Amadou Diallo

A Case for Reparations

We'll be making use of this ARTICLE in class and out.  Your assignment for today was to read and annotate sections I-IV of the article.

Final Exam Sample Essays

Final Exam Sample A1

Final Exam Sample A2

Final Exam Sample B1

Final Exam Sample B2


And here is the Gettysburg Address Rap...

Final Exam Writing Workshop

Please click on this LINK to see a sample final exam paragraph.

Semester 1 Final Exam Prep Work Day #2

For class today, you should have

• Completed packet #1 
• Brought all of your materials (handouts, books, novels, journals) from the semester.
• Selected the two documents that you will use moving into step two.

However, many of you may be wondering how all of that information is going to come together. Thus, here is the FINAL ASSIGNMENT that we will go over in class today.

In order to prepare to complete each section of the final assignment, your next step is to complete a second packet, gathering evidence from the rest of the semester.

• Here is a link to packet #2

Again, be sure to copy this chart and create a new document, since you will be submitting this prep work as part of your exam.  As you go back into your materials to find the examples you will be connecting to the main documents you selected, remember the work you did last night in your journals.  That should guide you to the materials to look at to pull the examples you will be using. Also, as you search, keep in mind the requirements of using materials from both columns in each unit.  The packet requires you to find more evidence then you will ultimately use but part of your task will be to select the best evidence moving forward.

Homework for Friday is to complete packet #2 and begin outlining and drafting your paragraphs.

Semester 1 Final Exam - Prep Work

Today in the computer lab we will start the process of the first semester final.

Step one is to complete the packet gathering evidence for the 8 documents we selected.

• Here is a link to packet #1

Be sure to copy this chart and create a new document, since you will be submitting this prep work as part of your exam.

Your homework for tonight is to:

• Finish packet #1, then
• With highlighter in hand, reread your journals. As you read, identify and highlight places where the ideas you listed in packet #1 show up.
• When finished, look at your highlights and see what ideas have been most prevalent in your thinking this semester.  Use your highlights to help you select the TWO documents that you will use moving forward.

Thus, for tomorrow you should:

• Come to class with packet #1 completed
• Come to class with all of your materials (handouts, books, novels, journals) from the semester.
• Have selected the two documents that you will use moving into step two.

Step two is to complete a second packet, gathering evidence from the rest of the semester.

• Here is a link to packet #2

Again, be sure to copy this chart and create a new document, since you will be submitting this prep work as part of your exam.

Reflection on movement activity and tonight's homework

Great job with the movement presentations today!

Here is the handout describing tonight's reflective writing - feel free to cut and paste from it.

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For tomorrow in class, you will need to bring these items as we begin the preparation for the final:

• Your notebooks / journals - all of the ones you used this semester
• The American Reader
• Crossing the Danger Water
• Civil Disobedience
• Self-Reliance

Unit project - Civil Rights / Native Son

Here is a link to Richard Wright's "How Bigger Was Born," for those of you who want to read the author's perspective on this book and the main character.

Today we started the project that will end our unit on Civil Rights and Native Son.
Here is a link to the assignment handout.

For tonight, your task is to collect 6 quotations from the unit. You will write these out on note cards.
Here are the different sources we used:

• Plessy vs. Ferguson
• Jim Crow web activity
• Booker T Washington
• W.E.B. DuBois
• "Without Sanctuary"
• Harlem Renaissance
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Langston Hughes (essay and poetry)
• Brown vs. Board of Education
• Emmett Till (In the Time of Our Singing)
• Little Rock 9
• Nashville sit-ins
• SNCC articlee
• Birmingham
• MLK
• "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
• "I Have a Dream"
• John Lewish speeches
• Selma
• Song lyrics (played in class)
• Malcolm X
• Native Son