OCTOBER 14

I can use a dash correctly.I can analyze non-print sources.I can demonstrate comprehension of text.I can make inferences.

The dash

Use a dash before and after a long interrupter. Remember interrupters may come at the beginning, middle, or end. The dash may be used to signal a substitution for parentheses or as a substitute for the phrases like “it is” or “they are.” When used as a substitute, the words after the dash become more important.

* Dashes are often used in pairs.

EX: All the cafeteria’s vegetables –broccoli, green beans, peas, and carrots-were cooked to a gray mush.

GRAMMAR

• Complete the worksheet.• Review the answers.

GRAMMAR PRACTICE

• Last class period we analyzed 2 photos together.

• Today, you will use the same analysis handout and analyze a photo on your own.

• You will get with a partner (2 people in a group).

• Each person will analyze a different photo.– Only one partner will

see the photo.• Partner #1 turn around

and face the back of the room.

PHOTO ANALYSIS

PHOTO #1

• Share your analysis with your partner.• The partner who did

not see the picture, must draw the picture based on their partner’s analysis.

• Partner #2 turn around and face the back of the room.

SHARE ANALYSIS

PHOTO #2

• Share your analysis with your partner.• The partner who

did not see the picture, must draw the picture based on their partner’s analysis.

SHARE ANALYSIS

• Discuss with your partner how close/or far off their picture is to the actual picture.

• Everybody examine both pictures.

• Discuss how the event/situation in each photo would effect the identity of the subject of the photo.

DISCUSS

• Keep in mind the following question:– How do the time

and place in which a person lives influence his or her identity?

JAMES BALDWIN’S ESSAY MY DUNGEON SHOOK

• James’s father was a minister- he describes his father being holy

• James lived in Europe for most of the 1950s.

• He wrote novels such as Go Tell it on the Mountain and If Beale Street Could Talk.

• His essays are some of the greatest American essays written in the 20th century; they often deal with issues of race, identity, and African American rights.

BEFORE READING

• Read with a pen…–Read the essay

with a pen in hand.–Annotate the

essay.

ACTIVE READING

• How can you relate?• In what way might your

country’s attitude toward you or your people affect your sense of identity?

• How do a person’s cultural values and sense of identity affect his or her obligation to the community?

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT…

• Why is the word integration such an important part of the essay?

• What is Baldwin saying about the relationship of white people to African Americans?

• Why does Baldwin think “The country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon. We cannot be free until they are free”?

• To whom does they refer in the closing sentence?

QUESTIONS

• Write a letter to a younger sibling, cousin, niece or nephew about the ways students' identities have been affected by living in your city or town.

WRAP UP