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Week of February 28
Designing Assignments to Build Racial Literacy

Class Meeting Time: 5:30-8:20pm

What you need: Your unit guide draft & Letting Go of Literary Whiteness

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Agenda:

  • Designing Assignments

  • Unit Guide Trust Circles

  • Work on Unit Guides

  • Mid-Term Conferences

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Trust Circles

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When Receiving Feedback

  • Share your work so everyone can see it. 

  • Be ready to take notes. You will not be allowed to talk---you must only listen. Take note of the feedback that is being provided to you in the moment. You’ll be responsible for making changes moving forward. 

  • Listen. As said above, you will not be allowed to talk. Even though feedback can be hard to hear sometimes and we want to explain ourselves more, it’s important for peers to share their thoughts. Remember, just because you receive feedback doesn't mean you have use all of the feedback provided. 

  • Take action. When your turn in the trust circle is complete, take action on your feedback during your our workshop time. Review the notes and messages provided by your peers and think about how you can make your changes. 

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When Providing Feedback

  • Review the provided work carefully. Make sure to take your time when reviewing what needs feedback. This will allow you to give detailed feedback that can help the group grow.

  • Identify and respond using these 3 questions:

    • What is the author’s purpose?

    • What specific details do you see that help accomplish the purpose?

    • What specific details could be improved to support this purpose (think about suggestions to add to the work presented)?

  • Share your feedback within the Trust Circle. Your feedback is important. You might be seeing something that others do not. Please share your thoughts as it may help push our thinking forward in our designs.

  • Questions to consider when examining units and providing feedback:

    • How does the unit take up the ideas in Letting Go of Literary Whiteness?​

    • In what ways is the final project meaningful, and how does it reach beyond the classroom? How does it help students move beyond playing school?

    • How do the discussions help students develop their understanding of the complexity of stories of the population your unit focuses on?

    • What experiences do students need during the unit to prepare them for the final project?

    • How does the pacing feel?

For Next Class
Open Book
To Read

  1. No assigned readings this week.

Doing Homework
To Do

Finish your literature circle unit guide.

  1. ​Finalize your culminating project/assessment.
  2. Develop the anchor activities/assignments.
    1. ​How will these activities help students explore the essential and guiding questions of the unit?
    2. How will these activities scaffold the skills needed to be successful when producing the final project?
    3. How will you address your racial literacy objective through these assignments/activities?
  3. Add the anchor activities and final assessment to your calendars. How much time will students need to complete each of them? Will anchor activities occur on a specific day or will you take a workshop approach and allow students to work on them across days? Where should these activities occur in relationship to your discussions?
  4. Create handouts for each of your anchors & project(s). Link these to your Unit Guide.
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