Wednesday, November 16, 2016

New Due Date for Unit Essay! November 16 and 17

First the due date for the Reconstruction Unit Summative Assessment Essay is changed;

new date: November 30th or December 1st


Class today was devoted to ensuring that all students were up to date in note taking and analysis of the black codes.

Students were also given a packet of information on small business loans; incarceration rates; and housing practices / red lining . Students were to summarize; analyze; and create a personal response to each of these three documents.

Students were encouraged to think about the following quotes in the Crossley essay in Kindred:

Time damages as well as heals, and genuine historical understanding of human crimes is never easy and always achieved at the price of suffering. (267)


Butler has been eager to avoid using her fiction as a soapbox. “Fiction writers can’t be too pedagogical or too polemical,” she told one interviewer. The route she pursues to her readers’ heads is through their guts and nerves, and that requires good story-telling, not just a good set of issues.(274)

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