Week 2 Semester 2, Work Due January 17th

Weekly Usuals

A. Week 1 SAT Grammar Concept: Fragments and Run-Ons

Review and master this  concept by completing these online exercises:

Sentence or Fragment? Game #1
Rags to Riches--Differentiating Sentences, Run-ons, Fragments  (Play until you win $1,000, 000)

Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872-1906

B. Our poet of the week: 

Paul Lawrence Dunbar
1872-1906 

Here are the links to the walls.  Be sure to add one or two things to your class wall this week.  Label your contributions with your initials! Example: (mp) for Mrs. Price.  This week, I put some ideas on there to get you started.  Read the poem. Watch anything by me that says "Watch Me."  To contribute, click the pink plus circle in the bottom right corner.  If you have any trouble, let me know, and I'll try to help.

Consult 20th Century Poetry Project handout from class for much more detailed instructions.  10:00 class, be sure to read this carefully, as we didn't have time to review it in class. Also I noticed many in 10:00 didn't pick up the handout, so you may wish to print this out.  If not, I'll have copies next week.

The password is dunbar. 

10:00 Dunbar Wall 
12:15 Dunbar Wall

C. Poetry Journal Response

Start your poetry journal responses mid-way into your current journal to keep them separate and all together chronologically.  Or you may use a new composition book.  If you don't have a composition book, please get one.  I will not accept loose-leaf responses this semester.

Label each entry this way:

Week 1--Paul Laurence Dunbar

This week's poetry journal entry asks you to further reflect in writing upon Dunbar's poem "We Wear the Mask."

Here are some questions to prompt your reflection.  Answer whichever ones you like---they are ideas to spur your personal reflection, not requirements.  If you have a different way you'd rather reflect on the poem, that's okay too.

• Why do you think that people/cultures are fascinated with the idea of masks?  Describe any books, plays, or movies that play upon the ideas of masks and explain how the mask is used to further the theme.
• What types of "masks" did African Americans have to wear while enduring slavery?  After they were freed?  What types of "masks" do you think Paul Laurence Dunbar had to wear as an African American Poet?
• What are some of the"masks"each of us wear and why?  What's the difference between a mask and a "role"  or duty a person must fulfill?  Are "masks" necessary?  Why or why not?

How long should your reflection be?  Focus on quality over quantity.   However, take pains to develop your ideas fully as well.

Remember to always bring your journal to class.  We will begin class by sharing some of our thoughts/entries. You will not be required to share any particular entry or poem, as I respect your privacy, but you should make an effort to share some of your entries/poems as you feel comfortable.

Other Work for the Week

Finish reading Up from Slavery and continue with your annotations.  I will check annotations this coming week as I didn't last week.

When you get to Washington's Atlanta Exposition Address (chapter 14), listen to the first part of it with this audio accompaniment. (4 minutes). Although the audio is somewhat fuzzy, it's interesting to hear a bit of Booker T. Washington's actual voice and get a sense of his speaking style. 

Watch this three-minute clip about Washington's visit to the White House.

Watch this four-minute reflection by Larry Washington, Booker Washington's great-grandson, on Booker's Atlanta Exposition Address and life.

Read this short Britannica entry on the speech.

Answer the following questions.

Finally....

Take time to straighten out your class notebook for the new semester.  Refresh paper, etc. You may remove any first semester work that's been returned but hold onto handouts that may be relevant for 2nd semester.  Going forward, be sure to keep all work returned to you in your notebook along with class notes, handouts, etc.