Agenda
take a minute, BLOG, corrections
readers workshop
week 6: Lines
Book Projects
HW - RJ 6.2 Read for 20-30 min. or iReady
Beginning of class
We started class by settling down, and writing our agendas down. My former friend Caidyn began reading her blog, as I was sitting down peacefully listening. Until she betrayed our friendship and chose me. I sat down in the blog chair, and began writing. We then moved into readers workshop as the class fell silent.
Middle and end of class.
Ms. Nakada began passing out a poem, then read it aloud. The poem entitled "The Contract Says: We'd Like the Conversation to be Bilingual" by Ada Limon.
When you come, bring your brownness so we can be sure to please
the funders. Will you check this box; we're applying for a grant
Do you have any poems that speak to troubled teens? Bilingual is best
Would you like to come to dinner with the patrons and drink patron?
Will you tell us the stories that make us uncomfortable, but not complicit?Don't read the one where you are just like us. Born to a green house,
garden, don't tell us how you picked tomatoes and ate them in the dirt.
watching vultures pick apart another bird's bones in the road. Tell us the one
about your father stealing hubcaps after a colleague said that's what his
kind did. Tell us how he came to the meeting wearing a poncho
and tried to sell the man his hubcaps back. Don't mention your father
was a teacher, spoke English, loved making beer, loved baseball, tell us
again about the poncho, the hubcaps, how he stole them, how he did the thing
he was trying to prove he didn't do.
We concurred this poem talks about the people in power stereotyping her to help their image. We then analyzed the poem, deep diving more into its meaning, and annotating. Everything was going well, until someone pointed out we only had two minutes left. The class began packing up as I finished my blog when the bell rang.
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