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How to deal with a racist child?

      Today we started writing narratives about a poem we read. The poem was about a bout in Baltimore, he was riding around and another child called him “Nigger.” Our assignment was to write a diary entry about what happened, you could pick how everything went, but it HAD to be in Baltimore, and the boy HAD to call you a slur. We turned it in, and I think we will finish tomorrow.

change the faces

     Today we wrote papers about whether we believe the faces on the current American bills should be changed. I sided with majority, that they should be changed. It was more of a class thing, but you weren’t supposed to copy it from the board exactly, it was just an example. We were told to take it home as homework and finish it, so that’s what I’m about to go do.

Change the bill

      Today we read two passages, they were both focused on the current faces on the currency. We went over them and made claims for them. There were only a few people who thought the bill faces should stay the same. I said that we should change the faces.

11/18

      Today we read our poems that we did yesterday. Although our poems mainly revolves around the same letters, everyone had a unique poem. Some poems even had the same quotes, but differed a lot. Most of the poems were kind of sad. They were about abuse, weakness, ill treatment, but there were maybe two or three that weren’t so sad. 

The color purple poem

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11/17

      Today in class we received an assignment. The assignment is to create a poem, on the color purple. I think it’ll be pretty easy. It’s due tomorrow.

Themes

      Today we read letters 21 and 22. We came up with themes for these parts of the book. It was a bit hard, since we were the last class, but it wasn’t too hard. We also answered a question in illuminate. We went over it, towards the end of class.