145th Street

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145th Street

• Walter Dean Myers

An Urban Book
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What is a short story?

• A prose narrative shorter than a novel.

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Vocabulary Words
peculiar

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Vocabulary Words

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liable
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Vocabulary Words

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milling
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Vocabulary Words

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raggedy
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"The Streak"
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• The story is told from the main characters
  point of view and weaves what he says and does
  with what he remembers.

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Reverberations

• While you listen to the story you will note
  things or reverberate them.
• That means (connections) that remind of you of
  things that have happened to you or your friends.

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Set Designs

• Finish your set design.
• Share your set design for A Christmas Story

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What is the theme or mood of the story?
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Harlem

• Pictures of New York
• Harlem
• What is the genre of Harlem by Walter Dean Myers?

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Harlem

• A Mecca for African-American culture and life for
  more than a century, Harlem started out as Nieuw
  Haarlem, a prosperous Dutch farming settlement.
  By the turn of the 20th century, black New
  Yorkers started moving uptown into Harlem's
  apartment buildings and town houses. The
  neighborhood prospered and by the 1920s, Harlem
  had become the most famous black community in the
  United States, perhaps in the whole world.

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• The Harlem Renaissance, generally regarded as
  occuring between 1919 and 1929, was Harlem's
  golden era, when local writers such as Zora Neale
  Hurston, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, and
  Ralph Ellison achieved literary recognition. The
  Depression hit hard here, but happily, today the
  neighborhood is well on the way to new glory
  days Young people and families are moving into
  the newly restored brownstone and limestone
  buildings, and the combination of architectural
  treasures, crackling vitality (even Bill Clinton
  chose Harlem for his post-presidential office!),
  great music and culture, and honest-to-goodness,
  lip-smacking soul food make Harlem a must-see
  destination

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• As I read, underline sections that are
  interesting
• Confusing to you put ???????
• Draw a line after the 5th and 10th stanzas.
• Practice reading together.

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Kitty and Mack

• What were your connections to the stories that we
  have read?
• What did
• you think
• about Mack?

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Characterization Graphs

• What character traits did you see in Kitty? Mack?
  
• Now lets compare and contrast Kitty and Mack by
  using a Venn Diagram.