Assignment for Thursday, October 28th

Hi everyone, 
Here is your "To-Do" list for today. NOTE that you will have to submit your work to urbanilliterati@gmail.com by the end of class, so leave yourself about 5 minutes to be able to send that email.

1. If you have not done so already, submit your VOTE for the senior hoodies. Check your email to see what you're voting on. If you have already submitted, good for you! You've completed your 1st task!
2. Complete and submit Process Journal 3, your Working Bibliography. If you have already submitted, good for you. You've completed your 2nd task!
3. Begin working on Process Journal 4, which is to COLLECT NOTES from your sources and organize them into a word processing document. Do the following steps:
1. Open up a Word document where you will save all of the important quotes from all of your sources. Save this document as YourName_PJ4_2010-11.
2. Open up the first article you have listed on your Working Bibliography. (You should have sent ALL of the articles to yourself by email.) 
3. Number the articles so that you can match them to your notes.  
4. Begin reading the article. You are trying to find quotes that will help you answer your questions from Process Journal 2. 
5. When you find a quote that you feel is significant, copy and paste it into your open Word document.
6. Repeat this process until you have finished the article. 
7. Note: you will find that some of the articles are not helpful to your particular research. That is okay....that is why it is called REsearch. It just means that your search for worthwhile articles must continue.
4. At the end of class, submit the Word document to my email. In the email message, tell me how many of the sources you were able to go through from your Working Bibliography. Let me know how the process is going for collecting these notes. I EXPECT AN EMAIL FROM EVERYBODY.

Vocabulary for Book 1 of Native Son

Here are the vocabulary words for the 1st section of Native Son. You will have a quiz on them after we finished reading Book 1. 

• galvanized
• gingerly
• plumage
• surly
• translucent
• nostalgic
• succumb
• vestibule

Annotation Log Native Son

I will keep an ongoing list of the Annotation Log quotes, page numbers, focus, date assigned & date due......just to help keep us all organized. It will be sorted by most recent log entry assigned. I will do my best to be able to post to it daily.


Annotation Log 1 [pgs 7-12]
Assigned: 10/18 (2nd, 3rd) and 10/19 (6th)
Collected: 10/22
** do a multi-lens annotation for each of the quotes below; follow model from class
Quote 1: "Abruptly, they all paused...eyes strayed apprehensively over the floor." (pg. 8) 
Quote 2: "The rat's belly pulsed with fear. Bigger advanced . . . tiny forefeet pawing the air restlessly." (pg. 9)
Quote 3: 'Buddy opened out a newspaper . . . "why I birthed you," she said bitterly.' (11)


Annotation Log 2 [pgs 13-24)
Assigned: 10/22
Collected: 10/23
** complete an annotation for each of the quotes given the focus assigned
Quote 1 [Postcolonial]: 'He looked at the poster . . . "YOU CAN'T WIN."' (pg. 16)
Quote 2 [Marxist]: 'He opened the door and met the morning . . ."I'm always broke!" he mumbled.' (pg. 17)
Quote 3 [Feminist]: "Bigger took out his pack and . . . she disappeared into a doorway." (pgs. 18-19)
Quote 4: [Imagery]: "They laughed again, reclining . . . squarely at this problem." (pgs. 20-21)


Annotation Log 3 [pgs 24-44)
Assigned: 10/25
Collected: 10/27 (needed for Socratic seminar)
Quotes TBD

HW Reading Questions for Native Son pgs 24-44

1. Bigger persuades G.H. and Jack to agree to rob Blum. Bigger needs Gus to agree, too. Why then does Bigger feel a "hot hate and fear" toward Gus?
2. Why does Bigger feel excited about his new job after watching the newsreel?
3. Wright portrays the media as contributing to the racial stereotyping of blacks, Find an example of this kind of racism in this section. What evidence is there that the media may also be stereotyping whites?
4. Why do you think Bigger picks a fight with Gus?
5. What does the following passage tell the reader about how Bigger will probably react to stressful incidents in the future?  "He had fought with Gus because Gus was late.....gratify powerful impulses in a world he feared." (p. 44)   Consider the WHOLE passage.

Homework for this weekend

Just a reminder about your To-Do List for this weekend:

1. read to page 44 of Native Son
2. answer all of the reading response questions from handout I gave in block period
3. there are no annotations to do (yet)
4. complete Working Bibliography for Process Journal 3 (due Thursday)
5. don't forget to vote for Senior Hoodies
6. continue working on your CSU applications (3 seniors have submitted their so far....woohoo!)

I'll stop there. Good luck everyone!

Senior Sweatshirts

Hi Class of 2011,


Some Senior Business. I want to place the order for the Senior hoodies. That means submitting your illustrations/images/ideas for consideration so that the Seniors can vote on the different submissions after school on Wednesday, October 20th.  


If you are going to submit an idea for the Senior hoodies, I need the following BY TUESDAY, 10/19:


1. Image for the front
2. Image for the back
3. Color of the sweatshirt


You can hand me a hard copy of your idea or a soft copy to my email. I will compile all of the entries and present it to the class for a vote on Wednesday, October 20th, after school. 


EVERYONE should submit an idea. If you're worried about skills, you can use an online design tool found at http://www.customink.com/q/02/.  Send me a link to the design, and we can include it!


Again, DEADLINE to get yours into the voting pool is Tuesday, 10/19.

REMINDER -- Vocabulary Test on Tuesday

Your vocabulary test will take 15 minutes. Study hard.


Period 2 list:  accentuates, attacks, deviates, symbolizes, conscientious, empathetic, tenacious, ethical, bureaucracy, egalitarian, art, pacification, aggression, kindred, matrilineal, equality, brideprice, polygyny, humanism, reciprocity


Period 3 list: accentuates, attacks, deviates, symbolizes, conscientious, empathetic, tenacious, ethical, anthropocentric, dowry, bureaucracy, foragers, one-world culture, fusion, apartheid, urbanization, holistic, innovation, colonialism, reciprocity


Period 6 list:  dowry, egalitarian, anthropocentric, art, reciprocity, culture, ethnocentrism, rap, pacification, law, matriarchy, genealogy, accentuates, attacks, deviates, symbolizes, conscientious, empathetic, tenacious, ethical 


Just think, your brains are 20 words bigger after this.