HOW DOES THE VISUAL ASPECT of the graphic memoir enhance the audience's ability to experience history as it was lived by the participants described in the text?

Monday

Watching the last 20 minutes of the documentary Freedom Riders. If you have missed any of it, watch it tonight and add to your notes.
HW: Review your notes and identify at least 5 figures involved in the Freedom Rides. Include in your list of names a brief description of that individual's background as well as their rationale for becoming involved in the Freedom Rides movement.

Tuesday

Continuing with the docuementary Freedom Riders. Please continue taking notes on the interesting and important people that we meet in the film.
HW: Catch up day. If you are behind in your reading, get caught up!

Wednesday

Completing a See-Think-Question for the Norman Rockwell painting, "The Problem We All Live With," analyzing the painting by considering what we factually see, deciding what interpretations we can reasonably make, and writing questions that address what we can't possibly know by looking.
HW: Write a half-to-one page long interpretation of the painting. What does the painting mean? What was the painter intending to show us, the viewers? What does he want us to think about?

Thursday

Starting with a read aloud, reading the analytical paragraphs written for homework. Mrs. Rabin and Mr. Easton will discuss their interpretations of the painting. Students will spend 15 minutes additng to and revising their paragraphs on the painting. We will finish class by returning to the documentary, Freedom Riders.
HW: Reading pages 99-118.

Friday

Discussion of last night's reading. What are some of the struggles that John Lewis is experiencing while working in the larger civil rights movement?
HW: Reading pages 119-142.