ENGLISH IIOCTOBER 3, 2011

No warm-up today. Instead, get out a piece of paper for notes and title them Black Boy.

REMINDERS Bring your silent reading book

tomorrow! Period 5: Make sure the paragraph

from Friday is complete (homework for tonight).

I need to speak with… Period 5: Blanca and Jessie B. Period 6: Dahmajae, Stephanie S.,

Carlos, Madelin Period 6: Turn in

Homework from Friday (paragraph) And of Clay Are We Created packet

STANDARDS

Literary Response and Analysis 3.12: Analyze the way in which a work of literature is related to the themes and issues of its historical period. (Historical approach)

WARNING!(Do not take notes on this slide)WARNING: What you see next may make you

angry. History is often an ugly thing. However, in looking at the past, we

are better able to understand the present and escape mistakes, thus making us able to build better futures.

RICHARD WRIGHT Richard Wright was born in 1908 in

Mississippi, and died in 1960 in France.

What do you know about the time period that Wright lived, that might be mentioned in his book? 1920’s 1930’s 1940’s 1950’s

RICHARD WRIGHT One of Wright’s most successful works,

Black Boy, was written in 1943. Black Boy is an autobiography of

Wright’s early life and early adulthood. autobiography = a story about one’s own life.

auto (self) + bio (life) + graph (write) Wright grew up in the “Jim Crow” South.

It was originally titled American Hunger. What does this title suggest about the

book? What might the two titles suggest about the

book?

TIME TRAVEL 1861-1865: The Civil War takes place. 1895: Booker T. Washington preaches

that African Americans should focus on improving economic class status instead of achieving social equality.

1896: Plessy v. Ferguson: A Supreme Court case rules that “separate but equal” is okay. Question: Why might this be an important

case for this book… written 47 years later?

What major value might this be challenging?

(STILL NOT BACK FROM THE TIME MACHINE)

1900: 90% of 8.8 million blacks live in the South.

1903: A black real estate broker starts promoting Harlem as an African-American community in New York City, beginning a flood of migration. Why do you think so many people wanted to

move there? 1905: W.E.B. Du Bois, the first

black man to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard joins with other intellectual leaders to work for racial equality.

(THE TIME MACHINE MIGHT BE BROKEN)

1908: Richard Wright is born into a poor sharecropper family on a cotton plantation in Mississippi.

1909: The N.A.A.C.P. (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) is founded, focusing on legal abuses.

(I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO GET BACK…)

1915: Ku Klux Klan is revived. They preach hate against Blacks, Jews,

Catholics, and foreigners. The Klan gains control of governments of

Texas, Oklahoma, Oregon and Indiana.

(IF ONLY DOC WERE HERE!) 1917: U.S. enters World War I; more

than 200,000 black soldiers serve. At war, blacks are treated much better in

Europe. (Britain abolished slavery 40 years before the U.S.)

Some Blacks choose to stay in Europe; others come back to U.S. after experiencing better treatment. They want to know why serving their

country doesn’t earn equal treatment. 1917: War and cotton crop failures

start a “Great Migration” of blacks to the urban North. Richard’s family is affected by this.

ESSAY REVIEW As mentioned on the rubric, I graded on

the following areas: Tone (were you focused on proving one point?) Organization (did you follow the essay

format?) Development (did you give enough textual

evidence, or quotes, from the book to support your statements?)

Prompt (did you answer what you were asked to answer on the prompt?)

Writing (was your style of writing good?) includes sentences, vocabulary, sense of

audience, and editing skills

ESSAY REVIEW Here’s what MOST

people did well on: Organization

Most people did a good job of following the essay format that I gave.

Development Most people gave quotes

that had good diction, detail and imagery

Writing Decent writing with good

words, sentences structures, editing, etc.

ESSAY REVIEW Here’s what MOST

people did NOT do well on: Tone (most people did not

stick to proving ONE main tone in their essay)

After each quote, explain HOW that quote proves the TONE mentioned in your thesis sentence)

Prompt (most people were not clear in explaining HOW the quotes of diction, detail and imagery PROVED the tone)

ESSAY REVIEW HOWEVER, some people DID do

these things well! Let’s look at an essay that did these things well.