Periods 2&4: Freshmen
We began with SSR and homework collection (Black Boy Assignment). Then we defined the Academic Vocabulary: excerpt and metacognition. Students practiced metacognitive note-taking as they read a few brief passages, writing down all the thoughts in their head as they read. Then, your homework was to read "Kevin Clarke", take notes on your thinking as you read it, and then write a letter to Kevin in which you compare your own reading history with Kevin's (due at the beginning of the period, next class).
Period 8: AP Lit.
We deconstructed, then reconstructed "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin by putting it in chronological order, then looking again at the actual narrative sequencing. Great observations too about how the structure mimicked the content of both the jazz and the heroin addiction and how he built the musical motif subtly from the beginning. Remember to go pick up your copy of Catcher in the Rye this weekend, if you were going to provide your own!
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