Following JFK's Diversity Day events and continuing the mission to become a more inclusive school, students will explore the notion that there is power--and perhaps danger--in telling stories and reading them with a myopic viewpoint. Chimamanda Adichie's TED talk (linked below) will be the springboard for some deep thinking and writing on this topic. Students will be considering how an author's perspective influences their writing, and how readers bring their own lens of experience to texts they read. We will pick up this work next week by reading five versions of a classic fairy tale retold by authors of varying ethnicity.
Later this week, we will begin reviewing and practicing spelling rules. Students will be given a packet of the rules with which they'll practice, and they should hold onto these in their binders as a reference.
Homework:
Monday: finish nonfiction book cover
Tuesday: finish "Power/Danger of a Single Story" hw writing prompt on handout
Wednesday: none!
Thursday: finish practice work Spelling Rules 1-5
Friday: finish practice work Spelling Rules 6-10
TED talk
Power/Danger of a Single Story hw writing prompt
