What Will Your Verse Be? January 23, 2018

Focus: What will your verse be? 

1. Warming up by wrapping yesterday's Venn diagram and "What Will Your Verse Be"?

2. Contemplating other Whitman's Hughes' verses: "I Hear America Singing" and "I, Too" with the MMM approach

3. Composing your own response poem to "I, Too"

HW:
1. Please finish your response poem if you did not finish in class.

2. Keeping studying the Fences vocabulary on www.quizlet.com; assessment TOMORROW.

3. By Friday, please watch the Harlem Renaissance documentary linked below. It will give you the background on the Harlem Renaissance that you need to succeed this week. You can start the documentary 15 minutes into it. 

*WARNING: If you choose to watch the first 15 minutes (not required), there are upsetting photographs of lynchings between minutes 5 and 7.*

So you could watch about 15 minutes a night, you could watch it all in one gloriously informative off hour, or you could FLIP class--you can watch parts of the film in class and do the in-class stuff for homework. Do what works for you and your schedule.

Documentary link: Making a Way Out of No Way

On Friday, you will be asked to take about 15 minutes to fill out a reflection sheet on the documentary. It will be divided into Level 1, 2, and 3 thinking. As long as you watched the documentary, you will be just fine. No need to memorize anything.