Thursday, Feb. 13 Agenda

• Bell Ringer: “Hunger in NYC” Discussion
• In the Google Classroom assignment, 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.
• Finish Postmodernism/Contemporary Era Notes
• De las Casas/Equiano note reminders–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 
• What are three specific injustices of the Spanish colonizers 
• Mood of “Relation” –what is it and list four 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 when 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? -read ind. book when done
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