Friday 8/9/13

1
Friday 8/9/13

• R.A.P. (Review and/or Preview Question)
• WHAT DOES THE PHRASE
• THE AMERICAN DREAM
• MEAN TO YOU?
• WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT YOUR FAMILY HISTORY?

2
Reminders

• Bathroom sign out sheet
• Tardy sign in ---before 7 minutes into class.
• Homework board
• Absent check calendar online, check assignments
  on line, talk to someone in class, check blue
  crate for assignments on front table, or email
  me.
• Monday DUE
• Signed movie permission form
• Signed parent understanding of syllabus.

3
I, TOOby Langston Hughes

• I, too, sing America.
• I am the darker brother.
• They send me to eat in the kitchen
• When company comes,
• But I laugh,
• And eat well,
• And grow strong.
• Tomorrow,
• Ill be at the table
• When company comes.
• Nobodyll dare
• Say to me,
• Eat in the kitchen,
• Then.
• Besides,
• Theyll see how beautiful I am

4
A PLACE AT THE TABLE

• Title your notes A Place at the table video
  questions
• PLEASE WRITE DOWN THE DIFFERENT THEMES YOU SEE
  DURING THE VIDEO.
• PAY ATTENTION TO THE DIFFERENT INDIVIDUAL STORIES
  IN THE VIDEO.

5
THEMES FROM VIDEO

• WITH THE PEOPLE NEXT TO YOU COME UP WITH THREE OR
  FOUR MAIN THEMES FROM THE VIDEO.

6
History in video?

• Slavery
• Civil rights
• Immigration
• Japanese internment camps
• The Holocaust
• Great Depression
• Treatment of Native Americans
• Homosexual treatment

7
Closure

• Directions Please answer the following
  questions in complete sentences. Turn in to the
  inbox when you are finished, if you do not have
  time to finish, it is homework and due on Monday.
  
• What challenges will you and your peers face in
  ensuring liberty and equality for everyone, and
  how will you meet those challenges?
• Which person, in the video, was most interesting
  to you? Why?
• Talk to your family and write down what you have
  learned about your family history that you did
  not know.