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• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 1

(= short for: we are learning today)

WALT: 

• understand opinion pieces on current issues
• what the learning objectives of the Literature Project are

Programme:

• Read Of Course p. 8 & 9 and do ex. 1 (10 mins)


• start on the Literature project (5 mins)
• speaking activity (20 mins)
• break 
• choose a book for the Literature project (30 mins)

Answers exercise 1

1A - 4G

2C - 5E

3B - 6D

F is extra

How did it go?

• Easy peasy? -> great for you!
  
• A bit of a challenge? -> see ELO for extra reading assignments

PS: test in testweek will be a reading test!

Literature Project:

Racism & Slavery in Literature

Objectives

• I have a broad overview of American (Black) history
  
• I can recognize how the structures of racism come into effect in a chosen work of American literature 
  
• I can explain my findings in a class presentation 
  
• I can recognize the effects of structural racism in today’s society 
  

Planning

• WEEK OF SEPT 5th: choose book
  
• WEEK OF SEPT 19th: receive book (hopefully)
  
• WEEK AFTER FALL BREAK: deadline reading book
  
• AFTER EXAM WEEK 1: presentations 

(15min, 4-5 persons, rest will follow)

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Racism & Slavery

Speaking activity

In a small group, you will be asked to present on a given topic. 

You have 10 minutes to prepare, your presentation should last around 1-2 minutes. 

Your research must consist of the following:

An explanation of your subject in general 

AND Any important dates, 

occurences, consequences 

of or other notable facts regarding your topic

Speaking activity

In a small group, you will be asked to present on a given topic. 

You have 10 minutes to prepare, your presentation should last around 1-2 minutes. 

Your research must consist of the following:

An explanation of your subject in general AND Any important dates, occurences, consequences of or other notable facts regarding your topic

Underground Railroad

Jim Crow Laws

Marin Luther King

Rosa Parks

Freedom Riders

Selma to Montgomery marches  

March on Washington

Black Panter Party

speeddating

6 books

5 min per book

Take notes

Hand in your choice

speeddating

6 books

4 min per book

Take notes

Hand in your choice

Objectives

• I have a broad overview of American (Black) history
  
• I can recognize how the structures of racism come into effect in a chosen work of American literature 
  
• I can explain my findings in a class presentation 
  
• I can recognize the effects of structural racism in today’s society 
  

What to bring to class:

1. Of Course book
2. Pencilcase with pens, pencils & highlighters
3. Notebook only for English
4. Folder only for English

Friendly reminder:

Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.

Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as planned—Cora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.

The Underground Railroad

-Colson Whitehead

Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver...There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son's tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; and white Miss Skeeter, home from College, who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared. Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny. No one would believe they'd be friends; fewer still would tolerate it. But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries, they come to depend and rely upon one another. Each is in a search of a truth. And together they have an extraordinary story to tell…

The help

-Kathryn Stockett

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of the American Dream. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. Until one day they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Devastated and unmoored, Celestial finds herself struggling to hold on to the love that has been her centre, taking comfort in Andre, their closest friend. When Roy's conviction is suddenly overturned, he returns home ready to resume their life together. A masterpiece of storytelling, An American Marriage offers a profoundly insightful look into the hearts and minds of three unforgettable characters who are at once bound together and separated by forces beyond their control.

An American Marriage

-Tayari Jones

Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she's been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don't want Ruth, who is African American, to touch their child. The hospital complies with their request, but the next day, the baby goes into cardiac distress while Ruth is alone in the nursery. Does she obey orders or does she intervene?

Small Great Things

- Jodi Picoult

All American Boys

-Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely

A bag of chips. That’s all sixteen-year-old Rashad is looking for at the corner bodega. What he finds instead is a fist-happy cop, Paul Galluzzo, who mistakes Rashad for a shoplifter, mistakes Rashad’s pleadings that he’s stolen nothing for belligerence, mistakes Rashad’s resistance to leave the bodega as resisting arrest, mistakes Rashad’s every flinch at every punch the cop throws as further resistance and refusal to STAY STILL as ordered. But how can you stay still when someone is pounding your face into the concrete pavement?

Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard, seeing a young black woman out late with a white child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make things right.

But Emira herself is aimless, broke, and wary of Alix's desire to help. At twenty-five, she is about to lose her health insurance and has no idea what to do with her life. When the video of Emira unearths someone from Alix's past, both women find themselves on a crash course that will upend everything they think they know about themselves, and each other.

Such a fun age

-Kiley Reid