THIS IS THE LAST WEEK OF A FLIPPED CLASSROOM, and you should be done with your novel by the March 7. If you are going past that deadline, endeavor to finish no later than this weekend. Also this week, everyone should meet with Mr. Easton outside of class for a brief conversation about your junior theme book, specifically a) what it is about, and b) what you think the book’s major theme is.

MONDAY

Today we will have a substitute teacher. We will read an annotate the article on Sambo in the 20th centry. Subsequently, students will sign up on a shared google doc for 5 minute conferences about your theme novel.
Reading your junior theme novel.

TUESDAY

We will pick up reading in Ellison’s Invisible Man. We will also begin discussing Sambo and other iconic, racist images from 19th, 20th, and sadly the 21st century, in particular Sambo and other minstrel images like Jim Crow.
Reading your junior theme novel.

WEDNESDAY

Examining racist images in late 20th and early 21st century America. We will start with this video from Sunday Morning. We will also watch two clips from this past month’s Daily Show with Trevor Noah, a South African comedian who is particulary interested in American race issues. Finally, we will take a look at the “mammy” figure in Warner Bros. Tom and Jerry cartoons, as well as Bugs Bunny and blackface/Sambo Elmer Fudd.
Keep reading your junior theme novel.

THURSDAY

Reading chapter 17, wherein we meet Tod Clifton and experience another version of the battle royale, this one a street fight between the Brotherhood and Ras the Exhorter.
Reading your junior theme novel.

FRIDAY

Meeting in the library. Based upon our discussions, most of you are primed to read articles/ chapters/ and other sources that explain what other experts think of your chosen novel. What do these experts say about your book?
Reading your junior theme novel. When we return to IM, Brother Tod Clifton will have disappeared, leaving the Brotherhood youth in Harlem in disarray.