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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 John talks with community leaders in the Black community in New Orleans.
ReplyDeleteEX "So if you want to be a good American you have to be a bad one that makes since." Griffin 42
T What does the quote above mean.
Y this makes me feel ashamed of my own country in the south in the sixties
(T) He gets treated like creap when he is on the bus trying to get off.
ReplyDelete(EX) "So, if you want to be a good American, you've got to practice bad Americanism."(Griffen41)
(T) What would things be like today if MLK didn't get shot?
(Y) I think MLK was a good leader for white people and black people to.
T The bus driver doesn't let him off and keeps going past the narrator's stop.
ReplyDeleteEx "He did not answer. I returned to my seat."
T What would be the point of not letting someone off at thier stop?
Y I would have a hard time controling my anger to.
T: he got a hate stare
ReplyDeleteEX: "She answered rudely, and stared at me with such loathing that i knew i was recieving what negros call the 'hate stare'" (Griffin 50)
T: All i can say is WHY?!
Y: this made me feel mad at white people in the south in the late sixties like when that woman was giving him the "hate stare" i wanted to throttle her
T = John experiences more discrimination on the bus.
ReplyDeleteEX = "So, if you want to be a good American, you've got to practice bad Americanism" (Griffin 41).
T = Why did the woman on the bus not do anything?
Y = I am astonished at the behavior of some of these people.
T He tries to get off the bus and the bus driver wont stop.
ReplyDeleteEX "The minute you give me the wright to vote when i pay taxes to have a decent jod, a decent home, a decent education." (41 griffen)
T Why do people hate eachother for close to nothing?
Y I would have a hard time being calm if the bus driver wouldn't have let me out.
T Griffin disrespected by the bus driver adn he bus driver will not let him off
ReplyDeleteEX
T Why would see not help him.
Y If I was on the bus I would just ask to get off and he could go out before me.
t-He gets tretted terabally on the bus, this reminds me of the time when that one laddy got tratted bad, but refused to give her seat up on the bus.
ReplyDeleteex-"there'er going to treat any negro like a dog" ( Griffen 48)
t- Where will the next descremigathion nexxt?
Y- I have been on a bus before
(T) John decides to go to Mississippi and test the waters there along with being denied the right to cash a check. (EX) He proves my point in saying "Hey. Do we cash traveler's ch---' 'NO'" (Griffin 49). (T) Why am I not surprised? (Y) I am interested.
ReplyDeleteCough, cough, sick, cough, cough
ReplyDelete(T) newspaper of Mississippi comes out one day about the lynch mobs and it says jury doesn't really care about them. WTF!!! Really?!
(EX) "If there was any doubt of how the 'southern justice' operates in Mississippi, it was completely dispelled." J. Griffin-46,47
"the axiom that a man is innocent until proven guilty by a court of law has been flagrantly ignored by Mississippi." J. Griffin-47
(T) this is 1950's right? AFTER THE HOLOCAUST and how the nazis treated the Jewish?!?! Then WHY are people STILL treating people this way?! Have they learned nothing?! Aaaaahhhhh!!!! (epic freakout)
(Y)I read an Arizona newspaper about the law yesterday.