Monday, September 24, 2018

Monday, Sept. 24 Agenda

*Bell Ringer: ACT Prep
*In your writer’s notebook, write a paragraph where you explain the connections you can make between “Hunger in NYC” and “I Was Sleeping…”. They can be poetic connections or possibly cultural connections as both authors are contemporary Native American authors. (Homework if you don’t finish and we move on)
*Discussion of “I Was Sleeping Where the Black Oaks Move” and “Hunger in New York City”
*De las Casas/Equiano/John Smith note additions –in colonial notes
*European’s Arrival: From The Very Brief Relation of the Devastation of the Indies pg 97 (read the background info and the text in the handout you are given) –Annotate to help answer these ‘prompts’ below in class notes section or on text, be prepared to discuss both the selection and the answers you come up with (details within text, not fully written answers)
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*What are specific injustices of the Spanish colonizers
*Mood of “Relation” –what is it and list details that support that mood (emotion in reader created by work) –direct quotes or specific ideas
*Who is his audience? What makes you say that?

*Start this if you finish the first three: How does this fit into the topic of “Cultural Encounters and Frontiers”? In depth answer with textual evidence to support (at least one piece). What insights or messages about cultural encounters or frontiers does this text show?

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