How To Rise, Part 2: January 20, 2017

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

1. Warming up with tone vocabulary, tabata-style

Round 1: Definition
Round 2: Draw a picture that represents the word
Round 3: Explain how the picture represents the word
Round 4: Ask a question using the word.
Round 5: Answer the question using the word.
Round 6: What animal do you associate with this word and why?
Round 7: I feel ___________ (your word) when _____________.
Round 8: Turn your body into a statue that expresses this word.

2. Revisiting yesterday's speeches by Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois, snowball-style

Find a partner who read the same thing you read yesterday. Talk through it together:

• 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?

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.

3. Reading Langston Hughes' "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"; making it personal with a little memoir writing, Hughes-style.

Click HERE for the memoir-starters.

4. Cooling down with a "quiz" on tone vocabulary, tabata-style

HW:
Make sure your packet (except for the very last essay) has been read and annotated;if you typed your Ethnic Notions reflection sheet, make sure it's in your shared folder. I'll hold mini-conferences with you next week on these.