Expert Group Selections

Objective: To Answer: Why did African-Americans leave the South? How has the history of African-Americans in the South impacted current race relations?
To further understand these issues, you will be selected groups of interest or placed in a group based on a particular focal period.  You will read, analyze material, find additinal historical information, artifacts and audio-visual resources and research and present to the class a presentation which highlights your findings. You will also write a mini research expository paper combining multiple sources that answers the essential question. Today we will begin selecting groups from the presentation portion of the project. Visit the Google Form Link here: Reconstruction to Renaissance and select no more than three choices based on your interest.

H. World Literature Period 6

Objective: Why did Black leave the South in droves?
1.  Consider the short story, "On Being Crazy" by W.E.B DuBois. Please re-read it. Be prepared to discuss and write about it.
2. Continue reading in your Independent Reading Novel.
3. Read the Entire Packet Reconstruction to Renaissance by William L. Andrews. Be sure to underline main ideas, and show textual engagement.

H. World Literature Period 6

1. Carefully read and annotate the packet on Reconstruction to Renaissance. Underline and highlight information. Maybe put asterisks on subject matter that you never learned before or + by information that you learned. Be sure to read the entire packet/handout.
2.  Bring The Souls of Black Folk & The Fall of Rome if you have not already done.

H. English Ten period 5 Lord of the Flies Close Reading Questions

Homework: Use the Character Bio-Poem or I Am Poem under Class Readings and Important Handouts to write 3 Poems: One for Piggy; 1 for Ralph and 1 for any other character in the text other than Jack. 

Close Reading Questions (second part of Chapter 1 Lord of The Flies)
1. Why do you think the author includes the details that some of the children were naked (or partially naked)? What might this reveal or predict?
2.  Why is it significant to have a set of twin boys on the island?
3. Describe Jack. How is he physically different from the boys around him?
4. What does Jack say that distinguishes him from the other boys?
5. Briefly, compare and contrast Ralph and Jack in physical appearance.  Contrast Jack's reaction to the the reality that there were no grownups on the island.
6. Why do you think the boys elect Ralph and not Jack as "chief"?
7. What does the word "chief" connote? Why do you think the author chooses that word and not leader, boos, head, director?
8.  Why do you think, deep down, that Ralph makes Jack the 'unofficial VP' of the island, so to speak? What does Ralph allow Jack to do/control?
9. How does Jack respond/interact with Piggy? Why does this foreshadow or predict?
10.  How do you feel toward Ralph? Piggy? At the end of the chapter/ page 25.

H. World Literature period 6

1. You are challenged to demonstrate understanding of the who, what, when, where and why of The Great Migration using images; drawings, adjectives, words, cut-outs, items with texture in a multimedia Open Mind. 
Carefully imagine what migration looks like.  Then, use your tools--your own artistic creativity; images and silhouettes from the internet; your own drawings, words, phrases, symbols of the south, the north, the east, symbols of opportunity; symbols of hope; symbols of backwardness and ignorance.   Brainstorm and plan your words, images, phrases, pictures, what you can and can't draw based on your own abilities. Then, look at your Open Mind and decide where you what certain words, symbols and ideas. 
Your Open Mind must be 70% generated by you. You must use a variety of color, markers, pencils. Be Creative.  You do not have to use a mind--it could be a railroad car, or a car. Be creative!
Due Monday--weekend extension!
2.  Revise for specific language your I Am Poem or Bio-Poem to demonstrate better grasp of The Great Migration! Then TYPE and PRINT for tomorrow!
3. Read your literature circle novel and then complete your role sheet. Be ready to discuss during the last 18 minutes of class!

H. English Ten B period 6

And...the better leader is? Which character thus far in the novel The Lord of The Flies is the better leader? Use specific evidence from the texts of the characters actions; ideas; thoughts that support your answer. Be sure to read up to page 23 for information from the text.
2. Also, write the vocabulary down from our quizlet

Honors World Literature Period 6

1. As stated in Monday's class, we would use the information obtained and our understanding of The Great Migration to write an "I AM" Poem from the point of view of a Black Migrant during the Great Migration or a group of African-American Migrants leaving the South during the Great Migration.  Follow the Format on either page 1 (Character Bio-poem) OR I Am Poem to create your poem. Use details, data feelings and facts if you can. Your poem should demonstrate evidence of reading our article, and viewing the links on the Great Migration. Link is found here: Character Bio-Poem/I AM Poem
2. Continue reading your novel a bit. You wont meet in Literature Circles until Thursday, but read especially for those students whose novel is more than 300 pages. Use post-it notes to jot down quotes or ideas.

H. English Ten Join Quizlet

Honors English Ten period 5
Please click the following link to join the Quizlet Class for Honors English Ten period 5.
Click to join class https://quizlet.com/join/g4pZyH42X and study Lord of the Flies Vocab. Chapter 1

H. English Ten period 5

1. Read the Article, "How Old is Enough" found by clicking the link to the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/weekinreview/15ramp.html
2. Write a two paragraph summary in which you show engagement with the article.  At what age is a person really adult? Demonstrate that you read the text by quoting at least two of the experts cited.

The Great Migration

In order to prepare and understand the play "A Raisin in The Sun", we will explore several short and long videos and readings on The Great Migration. Watch/listen to at least 3 videos--one of which should be longer in length (30-40 minutes) take notes, and then complete the reflective journal. I have hyperlinked sites to Wikipedia about the Great Migration as well as about the play itself.  In your Reflective Journal, you should demonstrate mastery of the Who? What? When"Why? Where? How Many? How Come? Lasting Impact of The Great Migration.
1. Fresh Air Interview with Isabel Wilkerson
2. Long Lasting Impact of the Great Migration
3. History Channel: Great Migration Videos
4. C-Span Video: The Great Migration 29 minutes long
5. The Great Migration-Stanford Lecture--be sure to watch

H. English Ten period 5

1. Read 45-60 pages of your novel, and complete 4 full page Say/Mean/Matter/Dialectical Journals for your Independent Reading Novel.
2. Complete a SOAPS for the essay, "The Future of Luxury" by Hans Magnus Enzenberger

H. World Literature Period 6

Prompt #1. Choose a Poem from the book Ketchup, and write a response connecting the poem to some aspect of your life (how does the poem relate to some aspect of your life)?

Prompt#2 If you could dedicate one of the poems from the book Ketchup to someone in the world, what poem would you dedicate? To Whom? Why?

Prompt #3 Choose a chapter from the book and write a poem or draw something that relates to the chapter or poem. Then write about why you choose that chapter or poem?

H. World Literature period 6

Health Detective:
In his poem, "The South" Langston Hughes calls the south "seductive as a dark-eyed whore, passionate, cruel, honey-lipped, syphilitic".....
What exactly is syphilis? Syphilis has a damning legacy.  What is the legacy, that Hughes may have known of when he wrote "The South"?

The South In Pictures

Take time to visit each of these sources:
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/02/the-50-most-powerful-images-from-the-civil-war/251998/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2358008/The-Deep-South-1930s-Remarkable-color-photographs-capture-daily-life-African-American-laborers.html


http://designbump.com/25-breathtaking-photos-of-the-southern-united-states/

Article of the Week

The Future of Luxury https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I0oy5Ck9_k_WIZ3A8DV3x2ftc5PwWN2d/view?usp=sharing

Why Should We Care About the South Anyways?

Why Should We Learn and Explore the History; Heritage and Traditions of The Southern United States?

Examine at least three of the following documents, then, in a page response, answer the question: 

Why Should We Care About the Southern United States? 

1.       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States

2.       https://www.wsj.com/articles/toyota-mazda-choose-alabama-for-new-1-6-billion-car-plant-1515547727

3.       https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-new-great-migration-black-americans-return-to-the-south-1965-2000/

4.       http://www.pewhispanic.org/2005/07/26/the-new-latino-south/

5.       https://southernspaces.org/2004/us-south-global-contexts

6.       https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/08/opinion/sunday/racism-is-everywhere-so-why-not-move-south.html 
7. On The Midnight Train to Georgia 
8. Shaping Georgia The Effects of Immigration