Please Complete the Google Classroom Assignment - Due Friday

- Read the articles
- Choose 2 of the questions
- Write 2 MEAL paragraphs on them

Please complete the assignment on Google Classroom by 11:59 tonight

Pleas look at Google Classroom and complete the term reflection posted there.

Also - look at the announcement that was posted there regarding students who did not turn in the Of Mice and Men essay

1. Please study for tomorrow's exam


- The book
- Types of conflict
- Types of characterization
- Allusion
-Symbols
- Notes
     - The Great Migration
     - The Harlem Renaissance
- A Dream Differed
-Afrocentric
- Assimilation
- Tone


2. On a piece of paper, evaluate Mama as a parent.  What does her relationship with Walter and Beneatha tell us about the ways in which she views family?


3. Bring in your independent reading book

 Homework Do you find more or less agreement with Booker T. Washington or W.E.B Du Bois? If either at all? Explain your answer and write on a piece of white lined paper. Make sure that you... - Explain both points of view. - Why you don't agree with the other - Revisit your journal question from earlier in the day, is there a relationship between equality and education?

1. For homework, you will ultimately create a "spider web" of sorts.  You will be using each character from A Raisin in the Sun to complete it.

Draw 10 boxes ( you can find all the characters' names in the front of the book.  You should do everyone BUT the moving men) and in the boxes, right the names of each of the characters in these boxes.  

Using lines, connect the names to the boxes and explain the relationship between them.

It should look something like this:

https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/m/a-midsummer-nights-dream/character-map

* If you want to get really creative and do it on a larger paper poster (extra pretty, lots of pizazz), I will give you a few extra points :)

2. Complete A Raisin in the Sun by Thursday

3. Study for your exam on Friday

4. Make sure that you get your book on the hero by Friday's class

1. Please remember to complete the handout given to you in class

2. Complete act 2

Please read through Act II Scene i in A Raisin in the Sun

Be Prepared for a Quiz on Everything Thus Far

1. Read Act I Scene 2 in A Raisin in the Sun

- On a sheet of paper, explain your thoughts and feelings about Walter at this point in the text.  Explain why? Do you have any sympathy for him?  Use examples.  Should be at least 3/4 of a page


2. Fully annotate the poem "Let America Be America Again" - please do not just hightlight.  Tomorrow's class will be based entirely on it

3. By next Friday, you should have your new independent reading book.  In celebration of Black History Month (in February), your book should focus on a hero (African, African American, from the Caribbean, from the diaspora).

1. Please READ Act I Scene 1 if you have not done so already - not doing so is laziness on your part. Don't be lazy.  Don't be mediocre. It's ok to struggle.  But struggle and try.


2. Read and annotate the poem that I distributed in class yesterday

"Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes

If you left your copy at school, be self-reliant.  Google it. Print it out. Do the assignmnent



3. Complete the graphic organizer that was distributed in class today - I will be collecting this tomorrow


* If for whatever reason, you don't have a Raisin in the Sun (and did not come after school to pick it up).   You are not excused from reading the book. Again, please be self-reliant.  You can find the pdf below


http://khdzamlit.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/2/6/11261956/a_raisin_in_the_sun_-_lorraine_hansberry.pdf


See you tomorrow.  Make sure you have books and binders with you

To be answered on Google Classroom:

Please explain a time in which you had a dream and it had to be deferred (set aside or forgotten) for one reason or another. What was the dream. Why was it deferred? What was the effect?

Over the weekend, please remember to:

1. Complete the assignment on Google Classroom by Sunday
2. Bring your Of Mice and Men Books to class on Tuesday
3. Read the following quotes form Martin Luther King Jr. below. After reading them, choose 1 and on a piece of paper, write it at the top. Then, respond to it in at least one page. Your response should include your reactions to it. (Do you think he is correct in his feeling? Does it have any relevance today? Can you think of any examples to relate it to?




“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth.”


“…the command to love one’s enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival. Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world. Jesus is not an impractical idealist: he is the practical realist.”


“…we must not seek to defeat or humiliate the enemy but to win his friendship and understanding.”


“If a man asserts that another man, because of his race, is not good enough to have a job equal to his, or to eat at a lunch counter next to him, or to have access to certain hotels, or to attend school with him, or to live next door to him, he is by implication affirming that that man does not deserve to exist.”


“…all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. We are made to live together because of the interrelated structure of reality.”

I. Remember that tomorrow, your vocabulary words are due.

1. turmoil
2. scrabble
3. self-reliant
4. complacent
5. paradox
6. affluence
7. imperishable
8. compatriot
9. benign


You should include:

The word
- sentence
- definition
- example



II.  #10 on the handout should be turned in on Google Classroom by Sunday at 11:59

Please remember that your film critique of Of Mice and Men is due tomorrow

Today in class, you started watching the film of Mice and Men.

We will finish it tomorrow in class.  While watching the film, you should continue working on the handout that was distributed to you in class.  You will turn this in as soon as the film ends.
 

You should begin to prepare a film review. Remember to focus on 1 thing (1 character, 1 relationship, or 1 theme).  Use the notes you wrote down in class today to help you.  Remember to be critical and analyze/evaluate what the director (Gary Sinise) chose to do/ what adaptations did he make.  Why do you think he made the changes? What effect do these changes have? This should be no less than 1 page typed and printed. 

You should read these film reviews to get a better sense of film criticisms here:

Of Mice and Men

http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E0CE3DF113FF931A35753C1A964958260


12 Years A Slave

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/movies/12-years-a-slave-holds-nothing-back-in-show-of-suffering.html