Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Strange Fruit: January 21, 2020

Focus: What do we need understand better or differently about post-Civil War America?

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.
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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.

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