Hi Friends!
This week, we are continuing our discussion of identity, learning about close-reading and annotation by diving in to our first reading project, an excerpt from Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me, and continuing to create artifacts for our History of Self project! Here are the slides for this week. Here is a summary of the assignments for this week (due 9/28, in your digital notebooks): 1. Weekly Notebook Update A. 9/21-9/25 vocab (complete 5 word chart) B. 9/21-9/25 journal reflection 2. Please add a link to your annotated Coates excerpt in the in-class writing section of your digital notebook. **Challenge Option: Answer any of the Discussion Questions.** 3. Write a 1-2 paragraph reflection on the excerpt from Coates and/or your takeaways from our close-reading exercise and add it to your in-class writing section of your digital notebook. 4. Complete your Epistolary Poem Canva and add it to your project work section of your digital notebook. Hi Friends. This week, we are creating Identity Webs and discussing the concepts of social identity and intersectionality. Here's a summary of our humanities work for this week:
1. Weekly Notebook Update A. 9/14-9/18 vocab (complete 5 word chart) B. 9/14-9/18 journal reflection 2. Identity and Experience Handout (complete in your in-class writing section) 3. Add your Identity Web Jamboard to your digital notebook 4. Read and annotate Coates excerpt (for next class) Hi friends! I hope everyone had a nice long weekend.
This week, we are working on setting up our digital notebooks and completing our first writing project: the six-word memoir. Your homework for this week (due 9/14) is as follows: A. Set up your digital notebook:
Consult A Guide to Creating Your Humanities Digital Notebook for help. C. Complete your six-word memoir project and add it to your digital notebook. Here's the six-word memoir lesson for reference. Hello sophomores, and welcome to Humanities. Here, you will find our weekly agenda, assignments, resources, and other fun things you'll need for class. This week, we will work on getting to know each other and setting some ground rules for our digital humanities class this semester. Below, you'll find a link to our course syllabus and your first assignments.
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