Monday, August 25, 2014

Tuesday Advisory: Critical Literacy

Learning Target: 

  • I can identify at least one critical purpose for literacy

SILENT DO NOW - on your computer:
(7 min) Reflective Writing – Choose one of the following statements, then write a narrative justifying your statement:
Reading/writing is …
1.    my friend because…
2.    my enemy because…
3.    a stranger to me because…
Click HERE to begin writing


(20 min) Reading #1 –
Richard Wright’s “Discovering Books”


(20 min) In pairs, students create an identity chart for Richard Wright.


Discussion Questions:
- What experience did Wright have with reading?
- How did literacy change his identity? His experience of the world around him?

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