Syllabus for week of 8/26, Week 1

Monday

• Lecture on Mr. Easton’s experience with race in the South Suburbs of Chicago and distribution of course expectations.
• Finish reading The Color of Water. Find and memorize Langston Hughes’ poem “American Heartbreak”

Tuesday

• Recitation of poem by all students in class. Small      group analysis of poetic devices in poem. Discussion of poem’s devices.
• Finish reading The Color of Water. Read article, “A      Dream Unrealized for African-Americans in Chicago” for class this      Thursday.

Wednesday 

• Meeting in lab 224 for writing of in-class paragraph on the summer reading.
• Finish reading the article for class.

Thursday

• New Trier's Mayor Emmanuel and race in Chicago. Class discussion: How does society create the conditions that allow racial divisions to persist?
• Homework questions on the article for class on Tuesday.

Friday

• Documentary on The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
• Short multiple choice quiz on the summer reading on Tuesday. Novel should be finished by everyone by then.