Tues, Nov. 5 RCG Read "The Wages of Whiteness," "What is Racial Profiling?"
and "Race and the Drug War" in the Race Reader (pages 136-139).
Answer the following questions:
1. Who was the author of Black Reconstruction in America and in
what year was it originally published?
2. What is racial profiling? Give two examples.
3. How has the drug war produced disproportionate outcomes
across racial groups?
4. How have drug convictions created "second class status" for
millions of U. S. citizens?
Literature Read "Incident," " Yet I Do Marvel," and "From the Dark Tower" by
Countee Cullen (sent via email) twice.
Bring in three points and identify three poetic devices (metaphor,
simile, allusion, personification, hyperbole, alliteration).
Wed., Nov. 6 RCG Read "Schools and the New Jim Crow: An Interview with Michelle
Alexander" in the Race Reader (pages 140 - 146).
Answer these questions:
1. How does the percentage of people in prison in the United States
compare to the percentage in 1970?
2. What forms of discrimination are legal once a person is labeled
a felon?
3. What are some of the effects of mass incarceration on African
American children?
4. Describe how Alexanders uses the birdcage metaphor.
5. Alexander says that education had been defunded by the
government. Where does she say that the money has gone
instead?
6. How does Alexander believe young people can contribute to
solving the problems created by mass incarceration of people of
color?
Thurs, Nov. 7 Literature Read "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston.
Bring in three points to discuss in class.
Be prepared for a 5 question quiz.
Here is the link to the story.
http://lists.wsu.edu/pipermail/english/attachments/20130206
/4fdc96a6/HurstonSweat.pdf
Writing Read "The Poem that Made Sherman Alexie Want to Drop
Everything and Be a Poet" by Joe Fassler at this link.
Answer these questions:
1. What poem made Alexie want to become a poet?
2. What line of the poem specifically resonated with him?
3. What was it that Alexie realized when he read the poem?
4. Describe what the line means to Alexie.
5. How do you relate what Alexie says in the interview to your
own writing?
6. Is there an author or a piece of writing that has inspired you or
made you want to write something? If so, what and why?
Fri, Nov. 9 News Bowl Watch the news to prepare.
Literature Watch the movie Charlotte Gray and complete the writing
assignment in class.
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