Today we finished talking about Langston Hughes.
You began work on a Hughes Study Guide for yourself, which is due on Monday/Tuesday. I shared the instructions with you in your Google Drive. Please bring your copy of Macbeth and your copy of Persepolis to class on Monday. We will be using them!
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Today we had appointment discussions for the poems "Blues." If you were absent, you can get credit for this by writing a well developed paragraph of analysis of these poems. Use specific evidence from the poems to support your ideas. What do you make of this group of poems? What do you make of "Blues Poetry"? What's interesting about it and what do you notice? What's similar to/different from Hughes' other poetry?
HW: For Friday, read and annotate "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" (shared in Google Drive) Today I checked your homework (reading and annotating the 3 poems including "I, Too.")
You read 2 more documents, including an essay from the Smithsonian and Countee Cullen's 1926 review of Hughes' book The Weary Blues. I will share these with you in Google Docs. Then we had a Spiderweb discussion (graded). If you missed this, you need to use the two readings plus the poems. Think of two discussion questions and type a 250 word, double spaced response to each of your questions, supported with evidence from all of the texts. Then we watched the first 20 minutes of a Lanston Hughes documentary from the Voices and Visions series. You can access the documentary here. Today you took the first half of your practice Paper 2 exam. If you were absent and haven't made prior arrangements you will need to arrange to make up this time.
Today we discussed Paper 2. I passed out several handouts and went over them. These handouts are available in your Google Drive.
Tomorrow you will begin a two-day paper 2 exam. This is practice for the IB Paper Two exam, but you will all be graded on it since it is assessing you on the last two works we read and studied, Persepolis and Macbeth. If you will be absent for one or both of these days you will need to contact me about making this up. |
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