“Like all good works of fiction, it lies like the truth.”
-Robert Crossly in his critical essay on Kindred by Octavia Butler

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"Words, so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become, in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."
—American Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, May 18, 1848

 Agenda
Mon 10-28-2019
     -Pre-reading Quiz: Background Knowledge (Slavery in America)
​     -Article of the Week: Video # 1
     -AoW Data Sheet
     -HW: Complete Aow and read HTRLLAP Chs 9&10
Tues 10-29-2019
     -submit AoW
     -Dialectical Journals (DJ)
     -in class read aloud: "The River"
     -HW: Read "The Fire: Ch 1" and compose DJ, read HTRLLAP Chs 9&10
Wed 10-30-2019
     -Quiz on "The Fire: Ch 1"
     -In class read aloud: "The Fire: Ch 2"
     -HW: Read "The Fire: Chs 3&4" AND prepare notes for HTRLLAP Chs 9&10 and quiz
Thurs 10-31-2019
     -Character Web
     -RN Check in class
Fri 11-1-2019
     -Challenge Essay (25 Summative Points)
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Mon 11-4-2019
     -Computer Lab
     -Artifact Inquiry and Journal Entry (RN)
     -HW: Read "The Fire: Chs 1-4" and finish Artifact Inquiry if necessary
Tues 11-5-2019
     -Election Day
     -Professional Development
Wed 11-6-2019
     -Lecture: Paradox, Foreshadowing, and Irony, oh my!!
     -"The Fire: Chs 1-4" Discussion
     -Dialectical Journals
     -Pop Quiz????
     -The Character Web
     -HW: Read "The Fire: Chs 5-6"
Thurs 11-7-2019
     -"The Fire: Chs 5-6" Discussion
     -Dialectical Journals
     -Pop Quiz?????
     -Character Web
Fri 11-8-2019
     -Submit DJs for Kindred: "Prologue," "The River," and  "The Fire: Chs 1-6"  (8 total DJs)
     -In Class Reading Day
          -either Independent Reading Novel OR Kindred
     -HW: read Kindred "The Fall: Chs 1-4" (DJs for each chapter-using Sticky Note Strategy) AND  Thought Questions Worksheet
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Mon 11-11-2019
     -Veterans Day
     -No School!
Tues 11-12-2019
      -submit Kindred Inquiry Project to classroom inbox
     -"Foreshadowing and Irony" Worksheet assigned
     -HW: read through end of "The Fall: Part 2" page 65
Wed 11-13-2019
     -BE Grades discussion
           -Good vs. Great Student
     -Kindred Discussion
     -HW: Read "The Fall: Part 3" pgs 65-74
Thurs 11-14-2019
     -HOUSEKEEPING-missing grades and PowerSchool
     -Reading Discussion AND Dialectical Journal Entries
​     -Character Web
     -HW: Read "The Fall: Parts 4&5"
Fri 11-15-2019
     -In-Class Reading Day
     -HW: Read "The Fall: Parts 1-8" Dialectical Journals OR Study Guide Questions 
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Mon 11-18-2019
     -Character Web
​     -Discussion of "The Fall"
     -HW: Read "The Fight: chs 1-4" pgs 108-126
Tues 11-19-2019
     -"Foreshadowing and Irony" Worksheet due at the start of class
     -"The Fall" SGQ due at the start of class (POSTPONED-due on Wed 11/20 at start of class)
     -POP QUIZ
     -HW: (1)READ "The Fight: chs 5-7" pgs 126-148, (2) WATCH Video 1 AND (3) WRITE a thorough summary of Kendi's brief lecture (this may be a bulleted outline) in your Dialectical Journal Composition Book.
Wed 11-20-2019
     -SGQ checked
     -Discussion of  "The Fight: chs 5-7"
     -SGQ debriefing
     -HW: (1) READ "The Fight: chs 8-11" pgs 148-168, (2) WATCH Video 2 and (3) WRITE a thorough summary of Berry's brief lecture (this may be a bulleted outline) in your Dialectical Journal Composition Book.
Thurs 11-21-2019
     -Discussion of "The Fight, chs 8-11"
     -SGQ debriefing
     -HW: (1) READ "The Fight: chs 12-16" pgs 168-188, (2) WATCH Video 3 and (3) WRITE a thorough summary of Hunter's brief lecture (this may be a bulleted outline) in your Dialectical Journal Composition Book. ALSO SGQ for "The Fight" due on Friday at start of class
Fri 11-22-2019
​     -"The Fight" Study Guide Questions due
     -SCHOLAR HOUR
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Mon 11-25-2019
     -Housekeeping
Tues 11-26-2019
     -Housekeeping
Wed 11-27-2019
     -Community Awareness Day
Thurs 11-28-2019
     -Thanksgiving Day
Fri 11-29-2019
     -No School
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Mon 12-2-2019
     -Introduction of "The Fight" Response Essay (50 point Summative Assessment)
     -NPR Article and Interview
     -Essay due on Friday 12-6 uploaded to Turnitin.com by 11:59pm
     -In-Class Activity: Dana and Alice Comparison
     -Begin in class reading of "The Rope" and complete aligned study guide questions
     -HW: Read and Listen to the NPR piece: "Octavia Butler: Writing Herself into the Story
Tues 12-3-2019
     -SNOW DAY
Wed 12-4-2019
     -Mid-Unit Summative Assessment
     -In class reading of "The Rope" and complete aligned study guide questions
​     -HW: Read and Listen to the NPR piece: "Octavia Butler: Writing Herself into the Story
Thurs 12-5-2019
​      -How to write a Rhetorical precis
      -In class reading of "The Rope" and complete aligned study guide questions
​      -HW: Read and Listen to the NPR piece: "Octavia Butler: Writing Herself into the Story
Fri 12-6-2019
     -Computer Lab
     -Composing and Creating
​     -Essay due on Monday 12-9 uploaded to Turnitin.com by 11:59pm
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Mon 12-9-2019
     -Computer Lab
     -Editing and Revising
     -Essay due on Monday 12-9 uploaded to Turnitin.com by 11:59pm
Tues 12-10-2019
     -Progress Reports
     -Begin "The Storm" in class
     -Finish "The Storm: chs 1-5" pgs 189-213
     -HW: watch Video #4, compose Rhetorical Precis
Wed 12-11-2019
     -Discussion
     -Finish The Storm: chs 6-13" pgs 213-239
     -HW: watch Video #5, compose Rhetorical Precis
Thurs 12-12-2019
     -Discussion
     -Begin "The Rope: 1-3" pgs 240-251
     -HW: watch Video #6, compose Rhetorical Precis
Fri 12-13-2019
     -Discussion
     -Finish "The Rope: ch 4" and "The Epilogue" pgs 252-264
     -All SGQs due Monday
     -HW: watch Video #7, compose Rhetorical Precis
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Mon 12-16-2019
     -SGQs due
     -Rhetorical Precis for Videos 4-7 due
     -Kindred Test Part 1 (Cancelled)
Tues 12-17-2019
     -Kindred Test Part 2 (Cancelled)
Wed 12-18-2019
     -Family History Project (Cancelled)
Thurs 12-19-2019
     -Family History Project (Cancelled)
Fri 12-20-2019
     -Half Day
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Winter Break!
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​Mon 12-30-2019
     -Winter Break
Tues 12-31-2019
     -New Year's Eve
Wed 1-1-2020
     -New Year's Day
Thurs 1-2-2020
     -Welcome back!!!
     -"The Rope" Discussion
Fri 1-3-2020
     -"Epilogue" Discussion
     -Introduction of Lens and Artifact Essay
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Mon 1-6-2020
     -Three Kings Day
     -No School
Tues 1-7-2020
     -Lens and Artifact Essay Overview (Writers' Notebook)
     -Mini Lens and Artifact: "Teaching Hard History Video #4" and 12 Years a Slave (Worksheet)
Wed 1-8-2020
     -Mini Lens and Artifact: "Teaching Hard History Video #5" and 12 Years a Slave (Worksheet)
Thurs 1-9-2020
     -Mini Lens and Artifact: "Teaching Hard History Video #6" and 12 Years a Slave (Worksheet)
Fri 1-10-2020
     -Mini Lens and Artifact: "Teaching Hard History Video #7" and 12 Years a Slave (Worksheet)​
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Mon 1-13-2020
     -Finish 12 Years a Slave and complete Mini  Lens and Artifact Worksheet.
     -Lens and Artifact Note-taking
Tues 1-14-2020
     -Lens Summary
Wed 1-15-2020
     -Artifact Analysis
Thurs 1-16-2020
     -Drafting Lens and Artifact Essay
Fri 1-17-2020
     -Drafting Lens and Artifact Essay
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Mon 1-20-2020
     -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday
     -Study Day for exams
Tues 1-21-2020
     -A and B period Midterm Exams
​     -Lens and Artifact Essay due by 11:59pm (you may still work on this essay until Friday)
Wed 1-22-2020
     -C and D period Midterm Exams
Thurs 1-23-2020
     -E and F period Midterm Exams
Fri 1-24-2020
     -G and H period Midterm Exams
     -Lens and Artifact Essay due (upload to Turnitin.com)
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Mon 1-27-2020
     -Makeup Exams
Tues 1-28-2020
NEW SEMESTER

Octavia Butler (1947-2006)

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Click on the image above to go to New York Public Library's page, "Where to Start With Octavia Butler" (2018).
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Critical Essay Resources: NPR 

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The image above is one of the many notes Octavia Butler wrote to remind herself to keep her characters credible to her audience.

Click on the image above and read the NPR article as background to the interview linked below.

Please read the NPR article and listen to the short NPR interview linked above. Then compose and create a brief evaluative essay (250-300 words) discussing whether Butler has succeeded in her purpose based on the text you’ve read so far.

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Click on the image above to read an article from Persephone Magazine about Octavia Butler and Kindred.

Teaching Tolerance Resources:
​Teaching Hard History

(Video 1) Slavery, which Europeans practiced before they invaded the Americas, was important to all colonial powers and existed in all North American colonies.
Historian Ibram X. Kendi uses the case of Elizabeth Key to trace how Virginians changed British law to protect the growing institution of slavery in the 17th century. 
(Video 2) “Slavery was an institution of power,” designed to create profit for the enslavers and break the will of the enslaved and was a relentless quest for profit abetted by racism.
Please watch: Historian Daina Ramey Berry describes the sale of an infant named Rachel to explore how enslaved people were commodified. 
(Video 3) Enslaved people resisted the efforts of their enslavers to reduce them to commodities in both revolutionary and everyday ways.
Please watch: Historian Tera Hunter discusses Henry “Box” Brown’s escape from slavery and his work as an abolitionist. 
​(Video 4) Slavery shaped the fundamental beliefs of Americans about race and whiteness, and white supremacy was both a product and legacy of slavery.
 Please watch: Historian Martha Jones traces the development of racist ideas about people of African descent from the colonial period through the early 19th century. 
(Video 5) Enslaved and freed people worked to maintain cultural traditions while building new ones that sustain communities and impact the larger world. 
Please watch: Historian Ibram X. Kendi discusses how the foodways and music of enslaved Africans helped shape American culture as we know it today. 
(Video 6) By knowing how to read and interpret the sources that tell the story of American slavery, we gain insight into some of what enslaving and enslaved Americans aspired to, created, thought and desired. 
Please watch: Scholar Annette Gordon-Reed discusses the challenges of using texts created by enslavers to understand the lives of enslaved people. 
(Video 7) The experience of slavery varied depending on time, location, crop, labor performed, size of slaveholding and gender.
Please watch: Historian Edward L. Ayers describes how the age and gender of enslaved people, along with the labor needs in different parts of the country, affected the domestic slave trade. 

Artifacts

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Certificate of Freedom of Harriet Bolling, Petersburg Virginia, 1851

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Patrol Regulations for the Town of Tarborough

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Slave Pass for Benjamin McDaniel to Travel from Montpellier to New Market

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Mount Harmon Plantation at World's End

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"Bible Pages." Barnett Family Genealogy

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"The State of Maryland, from the Best Authorities" by Samuel Lewis. W. Barker Sculp.

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