The Racial Mountain: January 23, 2020

Focus: What is the racial mountain? 

1. Warming up with a "quiz" on Grammar #4: Modifiers

2. Considering our history of racial violence with a photo from 1919

3. Illustrating the "Racial Mountain" that Hughes uses as his central metaphor

• Draw a mountain. At the top are your big goals: Where / who do you hope to be in ten years?
• Draw yourself at the bottom.
• What obstacles must you conquer in order to get to the top?

Watch this video. 

• Think/pair/share: What mountain are we facing in America today?

4. On your own, finish reading the Langston Hughes' essay, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"

• Create a new MMM chart to explore this essays moments, movements, and meanings.

HW:
1. BY TOMORROW: Make sure you have spend 60 minutes outside of class with your book; you will be asked to compose your next thought log in class.

2. If you're delivering your book talk tomorrow, please review the blue overview and be ready to go at the beginning of class.