Syllabus for 2/12-16
HAPPY SNOW DAY everyone. Here's hoping you had a restful day. We will pick up exactly where we left off, with a careful analysis of pages 16-25. Rather than keeping chapter notes using a similar template for each chapter, we will have different assignments with occasional writing journals throughout our reading. You will NOT keep annotations as we have, with novels, in the past.
Monday
- Examining one detail from March: the marquis displaying the film "The 10 Commandments," lecturing on the history of the film, and discussing how the falling letters are a metaphor for the community's fall from divine grace. Beginning to write a journal about a time your stood up to injustice.
- HW: Read up through and including page 45 of our text.
Tuesday
- Meeting in lab 377-North to accomplish two tasks. First, type and print out yesterday's journal about a time you stood up for justice. That should include character development (carefully chosen details that illustrate the protagonist), setting (sensory details that make the reader experience one of the places in the story), and theme (at least two sentences that capture the lesson of the story for your reader, at the end of story). Afterwards, you should watch the following clip, from the start up to minute 18:45.
- HW: Finish watching the clip on the boycott, if you did NOT finish it in class:
Wednesday
- Discussion of pages 26 through 45. Who are the individuals that were enmeshed in John Lewis's experience? What are their stories, and how is their story similar to or different from John Lewis's?
- HW: Reading through pages 46 through 66.
Thursday
- Watching a different documentary, this one about Mr. Daryl Davis, a black man who purposefully visits members of the KKK to befriend them and confront their racist assumptions. It is called Accidental Courtesy.
- HW: Reading pages 66-82.
Friday
- Discussion of last night's reading. We will return to yesterday's docuementary.
- HW: Reading pages 82-98