Monday, October 5th AND Wednesday, October 8th

 

1. Class Protocols- 

• Week In-Class Tutorial to Mrs. Schulenberg-Cole 

2. Literary Device Review: 

• TEXT- Anything and everything. (You are here to read text... and well) 
• Thematic Issue- the universal or central concept that is explored in a text
• Thematic Statement- the message the author is making about the thematic issue.
• Motif- a distinctive recurring feature or dominant idea that has symbolic value in an artistic or literary composition.

3. John Lewis' Biography: Congressman John Lewis' Biography

• Historical Context- The influence of a time period on an author and their text. 
• Allusion- Brief or indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of cultural, literary, or political significance. 

In your notes, please provide information about these significant places, events, people, things, etc. 

• Edmund Pettus Bridge
• Selma, Alabama 1965
• Montgomery Bus Boycott 
• Brown v. Board of Education 
• Jim Crow Laws
• SNCC
• SCLC
• "We Shall Overcome" 
• Gandhi and Civil Disobedience
• Thurgood Marshall 
• Jim Lawson 
• Andrew Young
• Ralph Abernathy 
• Emmett Till 
• Freedom Rides
• March on Washington 1963
• Voting Rights Act 1965
• January 20, 2009

Homework- Make sure you are caught up with reading March up through page 52. 

4. CLEAN. CLEAN. CLEAN.