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Week of February 14
Class Focus: Applying a Critical Race Theory Lens to Literary Analysis

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

What you need: Your literature circle book & Letting Go of Literary Whiteness

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Agenda:

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For Next Class
Open Book
To Read

  1. Chapter 6 of Letting Go of Literary Whiteness

Doing Homework
To Do

  1. Complete your Dear Researcher letter if you did not have a chance to finish in class.

  2. Prepare for next week's discussion. Develop 3-5 discussion questions. Consider:

    1. Questions of race. Think about what you read in Chapter 6.

    2. Questions around our theme: For the Love of Family: Exploring How Family Shapes Our Identities.

    3. Questions around our essential and guiding questions.

  3. Continue working on your literature circle unit guide.

    1. Develop final project. As we've discussed, backwards planning means starting with the end in mind. What can students create that develops authentic skills and the illustrates their connections to the unit theme? How can their study of the novel lead to a product that has personal meaning to them?

    2. Develop Before We Start Activities. Now that we have the end in mind, let's go back to the beginning. What background knowledge do we need to build for our students to prepare them to read the novels through the lens of your identified theme? What do we want them to read and or watch? What do we want them to do? How will these activities prime their thinking around the ideas in the novels? Create slide(s) that provide instructions for completing these. Need more room than a slide can provide? Feel free to develop Docs that you can link to the slide. Develop everything you will provide to students. Consider when students will complete these tasks. Will they do one a day? Will they have workshop time to complete them at their own pace? Is there a particular order they should be done in? Include a calendar that outlines what this will look like. Feel free to make up dates that correspond to the time of year you think you will teach this unit.

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