Week 9 Syllabus: October 14
OUR NEXT SHORT STORIES INCLUDE one about Jewish and Catholic friends who encounter discrimination in their school’s lunch line, a Native American who is fostered by a horrid family on a road trip through Arizona, and a teenaged New York athlete whose brother has a developmental disability. For each one, students will write paragraphs using argumentative structure, or the “cheeseburger” method of organizing your ideas and including direct evidence. We will also add to the independent reading google-sheet, getting into the tone of your book, and the positives (and negatives) for potential readers.
TUESDAY: October 15
Independent reading for 20 minutes.
Homework review: annotations for “Run,” discussion notes (which we started in class last Friday, and you finished for homework).
Introduction to our next story, “The Wrong Lunch Line.”
Re-reading “The Wrong Lunch Line.” While doing so, remember to annotate:
Circle vocabulary;
Write out the questions you have as a reader;
Take notes on passages that would help you answer this question: How are both Yvette and Mildred in conflict with their school and the adults in their world?
Small group read-around: “East Harlem’s Nicholasa Mohr One of the First Puerto Rican Writers Published by a Commercial House,” by Harlem World.
HW: Writing and publishing a paragraph onto Canvas, about “The Wrong Lunch Line.” Check assignments in Canvas…due tomorrow, before class!
6th period notes on Noah's "Run"
8th Period’s notes on the story
WEDNESDAY, October 16
Watching two clips from Ken Burns’ documentary “America and the Holocaust.” The first clip details the popular spread of eugenics in America during the 1900-1930 (and the subsequent laws that continue to exist until 2014!). The second clip details what happens in America during 1938-1942, just prior to our short story, “The Wrong Lunch Line,” which is set in 1946.
Collecting your annotations to the short story “Run.”
HW: How does the documentary help you better understand the background to the short story? How are American political attitudes during the mid-20th century displayed in Mohr’s short story, “The Wrong Lunch Line”?
Go here to watch the video clip from Burns’ “America and the Holocaust.”
FRIDAY, October 18
First 20 minutes, independent reading.
We will finish the above film clips from the Ken Burns documentary on Jewish life in America during the 1930s and 1940s, and then write a paragraph that includes DIRECT evidence from the story “The Wrong Lunch Line” and INDIRECT evidence from the documentary “America and the Holocaust.”
Writing our next paragraph on “The Wrong Lunch Line.”
At end of class, we will pass out graded annotations on the story “Run”
HW: Finish re-reading and re-annotating “The Wrong Lunch Line.”
Out next story examines first people/native American stereotypes, “Diary of an Indian Princess.”