Developing Your Theme: January 30, 2017

Focus: How can the Harlem Renaissance help you discover your own theme?

If you did not turn in your documentary reflections last Friday, please turn them in today.

1. Warming up with three good things and virtue chart reflections

Level 1: How'd you do? What were your successes and failures? What was the process like for you?

Level 2: Franklin believed the charting his virtues in a rational, scientific manner improved his moral character. Are you a better person now than you were before you started this chart? Explain your thinking.

Level 3: Our semester focus is about power: Who has power, and how is power obtained? Can you make any larger connections between this virtue chart and individual/social power?

If you handwrote your chart, please either turn it in now or take a picture and share it with me.

2. Enjoying Grammar You Must Know, Lesson #4: Modifiers

3. Working on your Renaissance Little Projects (due February 10th)

• The poetry, art, and music of your project should connect to each other to reveal a larger theme.

• Keep track of your sources; you will need a Works Cited.

• Remember that something must be narrated in the background, whether you're composing your own poem/prose or using somebody else's poem/prose.

• If you'd like more background on the Harlem Renaissance, click HERE for a 10-minute crash course.

4. Distributing The Color of Water and reading schedules

HW:
1. Bring The Color of Water to class with you tomorrow. We will be reading the first two chapters in class.

2. Your next project work day is Wednesday; bring with you any materials you might need.

3. This Friday, we will have a "quiz" on modifiers (Grammar Lesson #4).