1. Warming up with three good things and your new "Weekly Accomplishment List"
2. Prepping with Grammar Lesson #4: Modifiers
3. Understanding our history of racial violence: Lynchings
Step 1: Dedicate a page in your notebook to three columns: Moments, Movements, and Multiple Meanings
Step 2: As a class, listen to Billie Holiday sing "Strange Fruit" (1939), using the MMM approach to discuss it.
Step 3: Individually, fill in the gaps in your knowledge of the Reconstruction with the links below and any other research you wish to conduct. Keep using your MMM chart to gather and process info.
- Understanding the origins of the KKK in the Reconstruction
- Click on this lynching map to get a sense of scope.
- Click HERE to hear people's stories.
- Understanding "Strange Fruit" as political protest
Step 4: With a small group, share your findings and discuss your response to today's focus question.
HW:
1. TOMORROW: Bring your independent reading book to class.
2. BY THIS FRIDAY, please watch the Harlem Renaissance documentary linked below. It will give you the background on the Harlem Renaissance that you need to succeed this week. You can start the documentary 15 minutes into it.
*WARNING: If you choose to watch the first 15 minutes (not required), there are upsetting photographs of lynchings between minutes 5 and 7.*
So you could watch about 15 minutes a night, or you could watch it all in one gloriously informative off hour. Do what works for you and your schedule.
Documentary link: Making a Way Out of No Way
On Friday, you will be asked to take about 15 minutes to fill out a reflection sheet on the documentary. It will be divided into Level 1, 2, and 3 thinking. As long as you watched the documentary, you will be just fine. No need to memorize anything.
3. By NEXT MONDAY: Spend 60 minutes outside of class reading.
1. TOMORROW: Bring your independent reading book to class.
2. BY THIS FRIDAY, please watch the Harlem Renaissance documentary linked below. It will give you the background on the Harlem Renaissance that you need to succeed this week. You can start the documentary 15 minutes into it.
*WARNING: If you choose to watch the first 15 minutes (not required), there are upsetting photographs of lynchings between minutes 5 and 7.*
So you could watch about 15 minutes a night, or you could watch it all in one gloriously informative off hour. Do what works for you and your schedule.
Documentary link: Making a Way Out of No Way
On Friday, you will be asked to take about 15 minutes to fill out a reflection sheet on the documentary. It will be divided into Level 1, 2, and 3 thinking. As long as you watched the documentary, you will be just fine. No need to memorize anything.
3. By NEXT MONDAY: Spend 60 minutes outside of class reading.
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