Syllabus, week of February 18

WE ARE USING A FLIPPED CLASSROOM model of learning. For homework, over the next two and-one-half weeks, your homework is reading and annotating your junior theme novel. Within class, we’re studying Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.

MONDAY

  • No school for President’s Day

  • No homework.

TUESDAY

  • Finishing chapter 14, wherein the IM accepts a job with The Brotherhood, a political activism group that seeks equal-rights for black Americans. We will also meet with study partners, working together to complete reading questions about the chapter(s).

  • Reading your junior theme novel.

WEDNESDAY

  • No school for standardized testing.

  • Reading your junior theme novel.

THURSDAY

  • Examination of chapter 15. This chapter is filled with racist paraphernalia, and we will examine some of this iconography closely, especially the “Jim Crow” bank.

  • Reading your junior theme novel.

FRIDAY

  • No school for Institute Day.

  • Reading your junior theme novel.