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T- Tell me something about what you read
EX- Write out an EXcerpt from the book (with citation) related to the most significant or pivotal point in the reading
Example: "My father was crying. It was the first time I saw him cry. I had never thought it possible" (Wiesel 19).
T- Try to understand better by asking a question
Y- How does it relate to you? OR, if it does not relate to you; How did reading this make you FEEL?
EX- Write out an EXcerpt from the book (with citation) related to the most significant or pivotal point in the reading
Example: "My father was crying. It was the first time I saw him cry. I had never thought it possible" (Wiesel 19).
T- Try to understand better by asking a question
Y- How does it relate to you? OR, if it does not relate to you; How did reading this make you FEEL?
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T A man named John howard Griffin moved into new orlieans to carry out his sociall exparement
ReplyDeleteEX " I a white man became a negro in the deep south what ajustments would he have to make? Griffin 1
T How long would he do the experiment for?
Y This is the most intresting thing i have heard of
John Howard Griffin began a test to see how black people were treated differently from others. "From there I was on my own" (Griffin 9). (T) Didn't SNL do a parody of this in the 80's? (Y) This guy has guts!!
ReplyDeleteT He has made the change.
ReplyDeleteEx "I decided he might be the contact for my entry into the negro community."
T Who is he going to anger?
Y This guy is brave.
T = We learn the process of Howard's transformation.
ReplyDeleteEX = "We decided I must shave my head since I had no curl" (Griffin 9).
T = How is he going to have to change his life style?
Y = I'd be lying if I said I wasn't curious about what's going to happen next.
(T) He gives us a good idea on how he turns a different color.
ReplyDelete(EX) If a white man became a negro in the Deep South, what adjustments would he have to make?(Griffin 1)
(T) I would never change the color of my skin.
(Y) Why would people hate another person just for having a different color of skin?
Lucky five!!!
ReplyDelete(T) John Howard griffin is leaving his old life to figure out how the "black" people live their lives. Basically a paraphrase of "hit the road Jack. And dot you come back no more."
(EX) "I prepared to walk into a life that appeared mysterious and frightening. With my decision to become a Negro I realized that I, a specialist in race issues, really knew nothing of the Negros real problem." -J. Griffin, 2nd page
(T) Wow. This dude has guts. Is he foolish or REALLY brave?
(Y) Being someone whose relatives are scattered around the deep south, I truly speak in the southern mind of my family in the past when I say, "good luck".
ethan wat was that?
ReplyDeleteT: John's wife seems cool with it.
EX: "After recovering from the initial shock, she unhesitantly agreed that if i must do this thing then i must" (Griffin 3)
T: Why does she agree?
Y: this guy is EXTREMLY brave
T a man is changing his pigmentation to make himself darker, he wants to see what it would be like to be a black man insted of a white man.
ReplyDeleteEX " I decided not to change my name or my identaty." (Griffin 4)
T why would he risk getting hurt?
Y i cant emagin just going from my nice life to getting yelled at all the time.
t- Then man decids that he will die his skeen black to see what it would be like living the life of a black man in the South.
ReplyDeleteex- "I had my last visit with my docter in the norning" (Howard 9)
t- What hardships will he fass in this book.
y- I have tried to change my apperance before when changing scools. OF cours, not this drasticually though.
T John Griffin is dieing his skin black and going to live with the black's
ReplyDeleteEX I am now going to see what it is like
T Why would you do such a thing
Y I would never do anything like that I like being white
T. Mr. Griffin gets an appifiny to decided to see what its like in hte negro community, by becoming a negro.
ReplyDeleteEX We decided i mush shave my head, since i hand no curl (Griffin 9)
T. IT takes serious guts to do something like dis
Y. I think it would be interesting, if one day im Caucasian, next day im negro, that switch and all.