Monday, March 4, 2019

Feminism

92 minutes

REMINDER: If you would like to go to the Chimamanda Adichie lecture on Thursday, March 14, get your permission slip turned in to me.

Reminder/ Review: Thesis assignment. Thesis calendar 

     1.   Pairs /small groups: Share your response to Between the World and Me 

     2.   Whole class:  Consider the following: (from the Penguin Random House reader’s guide:

Between the World and Me has been called a book about race, but the author argues that race itself is a flawed, if not useless, concept—it is, if anything, nothing more than a pretext for racism. Early in the book he writes, “Race, is the child of racism, not the father” (page 7.)  The idea of race has been so important in the history of America and in the self-identification of its people—and racial designations have literally marked the difference between life and death in some instances.  How does discrediting the idea of race as an immutable, unchangeable fact change the way we look at our history? Ourselves?  

Pair-share / discuss 

     3.   Review the term “Social Constructionism” (Power point). 

     4.   View Race: The Power of an Illusion part 3 and take notes, focusing on how race is a social construction 

    

Homework due Wednesday, March 6: read pages 39-76 in Between the World and Me and choose one passage and write a response to it (refer the instructions for details)

DUE FRIDAY, MARCH 8: 1^st draft of thesis