Voice and Visibility: The Awakening / Raisin in the Sun / American Voices Research

UPCOMING DATES TO NOTE (major assignments, see calendar for daily work/homework)

• Tuesday January 22 - American Voices Project Proposal due 
• Thursday January 31 - The Awakening Test

AMERICAN VOICES RESEARCH RESOURCES (ongoing, more to come)

• 1 - Project Overview and Calendar
• Malcolm Gladwell's article "Slackers" as model
• StoryCorps channel for fun
• Model essay based on Rocco's story
• 2 - Project Proposal
• 3 - Interview Plan and Questions (a resource not an assignment)
• 4 - Interview Recording and Transcript
• 5 - Secondary Research Plan 
• 6 - Annotated Bib Assignment
• Model Annotated Bib
• Annotated Bib Graphic Organizer
• Crash Course series on Navigating Digital Information
  (thanks to Kelly for this tip! This series is so good and necessary - not just for school but for life in our echo chamber of online lives!)
• Episode 1 - Navigating Digital Information #1
• Episode 2 - The Facts about Fact Checking
• Episode 3 - Check Yourself with Lateral Reading
• Episode 4 - Who Can You Trust? 

LORRAINE HANSBERRY'S RAISIN IN THE SUN RESOURCES

• Introduction PowerPoint 
• PDF of play
• YouTube movie of 2008 version
• Packet - complete both charts, half of the questions 1-28, and two reflection questions

KATE CHOPIN'S THE AWAKENING RESOURCES

• Introduction PowerPoint - background, creative writing prompt, other info
• Reading questions
• Reading Edna's summer with Bakhtin's theory of the Carnivalesque 
• Motifs and Patterns partner assignment
• "Emancipation" by Kate Chopin

CALENDAR (click here for larger view):