Today, please complete the historical fiction project. I am collecting your journals and finally keep reading Betsy Brown. Aim to finish this book by the end of next week. Further assignments will be discussed next week when the smoke clears.
Notes about Betsy Brown and Ntozake Shange:
Look here and learn about the Little Rock 9.
From a review:
"Praised as "exuberantly engaging" by the Los Angeles Times and a "beautiful, beautiful piece of writing" by the Houston Post, acclaimed artist Ntozake Shange brings to life the story of a young girl's awakening amidst her country's seismic growing pains. Set in St. Louis in 1957, the year of the Little Rock Nine, Shange’s story reveals the prismatic effect of racism on an American child and her family. Seamlessly woven into this masterful portrait of an extended family is the story of Betsey's adolescence, the rush of first romance, and the sobering responsibilities of approaching adulthood."
If you finish with all of that, take a break. Play a computer game, chat quietly, watch films, etc.
Today is the end of the marking period.
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