Tuesday and Wednesday: 12/16-17:

College English

Yesterday we worked in the lab creating draft two of our essays. Today we discussed the reading you had over the weekend and worked on the following:

• Write a letter from one character to another from The Things They Carried. Try to embody the character that you are writing as. For example, think about how Jimmy Cross talks differently than Azar, and how Jimmy would write differently to Kiowa’s father than he would to Martha, or Ted Lavender. Your letter must touch on an event from the novel and it should be the front and back of one page, skipping lines.
• Read:
  • “Good Form”
  • “Field Trip”
  • “Ghost Soldiers”

English 12 A

Yesterday we read: What_is_Internalized_Racism by Donna K. Bivens and answered questions 1, 2, 4, 7 and 10 replacing the term “work” with “school” when necessary.

Today we discussed that article and watched “A Girl Like Me” a short film by Kiri Davis.

English 12 B

Yesterday we worked on annotated bibliographies in the lab and today we discussed Social Class Theory, again borrowing Mrs. Moon’s power-point on the subject: introduction_to_social_class_theory (1). We read The Necklace  by Guy De Maupassant and used our social class theory criteria to examine it.

12/4/2014

College English

We took a quiz on chapter one of TTTC, discussed it and read chapter two, “Love”. Read “Spin” for homework.

English 12 A

We worked on new vocabulary  and began reading an article by Kay Deaux called “Social Identity ” — we stopped at the “Gender Identity” section. We also started our first project: “Iam/They Say”

English 12B

Today we started our trimester-long project. Our project guidelines (thanks again to Mrs. Moon!) are here:  developing_your_inquiry_topic_steps. Tomorrow we’ll be in the computer lab.

12/3/2014

College English A

1. Pre-Reading Activity: What do you carry?
2. Videos to give insight on Vietnam
3. We checked out copies of The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
4. Homework: Read the first story

English 12 A

1. We generated a list of stereotypes and discussed what stereotypes can do.
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2. We watched a TEDTalk on the danger of a single story

English 12 B

1. We discussed “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven” by Sherman Alexie
2. We continued our lecture on Critical Race Theory using Mrs. Moon’s awesome Power Point:  introduction_to_critical_race_theory_crt (1)
3. We read “Shame” by Dick Gregory and examined it through the lens of CRT for homework.

12/2/2014: College English A

Agenda:

1. Warm up: (At least one page)
   • Discuss three goals you have for this trimester and how you will achieve them.
   • What are your expectations for this class?
2. Discuss your homework, which was a two-page essay answering the question: “What is truth?”
   • We came up with the following ideas for what truth might be:
     • Hard facts of reality
     • It cannot be hidden
     • Real-not made up
     • Genuine
     • Reality
     • The act of being true
     • Subjective
     • There might be more than one truth
     • Truth is filtered through perspective
3. Finally, we took the pre-test and read  Isaac Asimov’s “The Relativity of Wrong”