Tuesday Feb 27th

Toady we were supposed to turn in the package that we've been working on, but cause majority of the class didn't do the same part we were given until Thursday to turn it in. I had yet to finish the argumentative part for the poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." So the extended time really came into benefit. During the class period we given a new poem called " Let America Be America Again." We read it as a class and annotated it as we went. On a separate sheet of paper that we we given we had to write down the roles of the people being mentioned throughout the poem and how have they been oppressed. We didn't get to finish the poem and the questions, so we will be finishing it on Thursday.

Monday Fed 26th

 Today in class we didn’t learn anything new or did much during class. But for most of the class period we spent it trying to finish the package of poems we were given Friday. Whatever we didn’t finish in class, we had to complete as tonight’s homework. The package is due tomorrow.

Friday Feb 23rd

 Today in class we were told that there would be people walking into classrooms and seeing around so we had to put our phones completely away. We were given a package with a separate sheet of paper that had all the poems we’ve worked on. The poems were “The Negro Speaks of River”, “I,Too”, “Refugee In America”, and “Mother to Son”. For the package we were basically writing for each poem its topic, theme, 2 textual evidence that support the theme, and complex account. We worked together as a class on the first poem which was “I,Too.” We all had to find an un answered question in the poem and try answering it, then find textual evidence to support our answer. Finally we had to write a claim, evidence and explanation. We had to work on one of the poems for the last 12 minutes of class, and the rest we'll finish in class on Monday.

Thursday Feb 22nd

 In class we stated a new poem called “Mother to Son.”We had to annotate the poem as we read it. The poem was basically about a mom telling her son not to give up even when times get tough. Once we were done annotating and reading it, we wrote 2 themes. Once done we had to flip the poem and on the back side it had 12 questions. We had to answer all of them before the bell rang on a separate sheet of paper because there wasn’t enough space for us to write on it. 

Tuesday Feb 20th

 

Today in class we started class with answers 2 questions that were based on the new poem we were going to read and annotate. The first question was “What does it mean to be an American?",  and the second question was “what symbolizes America?" I was called on to answer the first question, and I answered it by saying that " to be free and have equal or better opportunity than what we had before. Afterwards we started working on the new poem called " I, TOO"  by Langston Hughes. We annotated the poem and wrote 3 themes for it. The themes were; 1) Tomorrow will be a better today in America, 2)In America, you must take advantage of the opportunists that are given to you, and 3) Every American is treated equal no matter the circumstance. 

Thursday Feb 15th

Class was a lot shorter today due to the Black history assembly happening during homeroom. But during the class time we worked on a new poem called  “ Refugee in America”. We annotated the poem and wrote down 2 themes for it.

Tuesday Feb 13th