Race: Con't.; Study Groups; Jigsaw

Please gather in your reading groups this morning. Take 10 minutes to share a passage in the book that you annotated or noticed that you liked. Read the passage to the rest of the group. [if you haven't read the book yet, pick a passage and read it...--you can still participate!]

• Native Son by Richard Wright
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

As you read feel free to annotate the text with questions (problem areas), observations, or interesting lines/passages.

• What to do with these annotations:

1. Research questions--find out the answers; or ask during class; use these questions to predict or consider "why" the author writes the passage this way.
2. Observations--share your observations with the other group members; examine what the author does in the book...how is the author's style unique or effective? 
3. Use observations to write your own poems, plays, scenes, essays, etc.
4. Steal an interesting line and use it in your own writing of a short story, poem, play, etc.

Then, let's get down to a little race reflection.

Do You Have a Racial Preference? (3 min.)
What's the Difference Between Latino, Hispanic, Spanish? (4.5 min)
Race as a Social Construct

Watch on your own: For further explanation, take a look at these videos and respond creatively: The Science of Human Races, Part 1 & The Science of Human Races, Part 2; and Scientific racism: The Eugenics of Social Darwinism (59 min.) Science Last Taboo: Race & Intelligence (45 min.); African American Detroit Students (5.5 min.), Whose to Blame for Black Failure? (5.5 min.); On Race: Episode 1 (6 min.)

African American Literature jigsaw.