How To Rise, Part 2: January 19, 2018

Focus: What is the best way to rise in social power?

1. Warming up by updating your virtue charts and meeting the Fences vocabulary on www.quizlet.com
(You shouldn't need to rejoin the class, but in case you do: https://quizlet.com/join/GmEMFkrpJ)

2. Find someone who read the same speech/essay that you did and talk through it:

• Which parts did you understand? Explain them to each other.
• Which parts confused you? Form questions about them and talk through them.
• Which THREE lines were the most central to this text? Why?

3. Mental jousting with yesterday's speeches by Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois

• Find a partner who read the OTHER speech/essay (not the same one you did).

• Become a group of four with a partnership who read the other speech; we'll use mental jousting to teach each other the speeches and discuss them.

4. Reading Langston Hughes' "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" around the circle; making it personal with a little Friday Freewriting, Hughes-style.

Click HERE for the Friday Freewriting starters.


HW:
1. If you have not finished reading and marking up the Booker T. Washington piece or DuBois piece, please finish by Monday.

2. Peruse your Fences vocabulary once a day; we will have a short assessment on Wednesday.

3. Consider purchasing your own copy of the play, Fences.