HUMANITIES 12/7/09

AGENDA:

1.  Blog
2. "Jim Crow" reading
3. Socratic seminar prep/BE dialectical journal check
4. Socratic seminar
5. Ad essay editing
6. peer revision/ Essay typing

OBJECTIVE:

• SWBAT better understand historical context of BE 
• SWBAT analyze connection between BE, Jim Crow, and Media Literacy

HOMEWORK:

• Read all "Summer" section and study questions for ch.4 and summer
• Revise essay and counter ad

SUMMARY:
                  Today in Mrs.Matthews class we picked up some handouts as we were walking in. One of those papers was about Jim Crow. His real name was Dartmouth "Daddy" Rice. He was a white man who painted himself black and "appeared on stage as 'Jim Crow'-- an  exaggerated, highly stereotypical black character". He had a song and dance routine and it was extremely successful. When we were done reading this Cami and Jackie read their blog entries. When they finished we were told we were going to have a Socratic seminar. We went over the rules then Ms.Montoya passed out the cards that would put us in our groups for the Socratic seminar. The black group went today and they discussed what we have been reading for BE, Jim Crow,and what affects the media has on people. As we did this Ms.Matthews walked around to check our dialectical journals for Ch.4 in BE. When the Socratic seminar was over we read and analyzed a sample ad essay about YMI jeans. We talked about what was good in the essay like all the details of the ad and what was not so good like her organization. When we were done with that we got a peer editing sheet . Some people were ready to start peer editing and others started revising. Then we left for Ms.Cho's class.

< this is an image of Jim Crow
















-Ana Banana :)