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.