November
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I. Review of Syllabus Changes via NCTE... Deepest Apologies For a PDF of these revisions, please click here.

II. Reminder: FINAL, REVISED Blue Book Due Next Week

III. Game of FIVES

1. Come up with five IMPORTANT points about the ROLE of YAL, UF, and comics--- by Black women for Black girls/Black women.  You can think of this role in terms of schools, literacies, alternative girlhoods, or counter-narrative.  Take these five points directly from your homework.  Highlight/write the five points right on the homework that you are submitting today.  Or, write out five new points.  Please NUMBER THESE 5 POINTS on your homework (or separate sheet of paper).
2. In small groups, each of you must share your five points. 
3. As a group, come up with ONE SET of five points now. You may need to decide on a central point a group member made or you may collate/re-mix common phrasings.
4. A facilitator needs to write out the new set of FIVE points that capture the whole group.  FIVE POINTS for the whole group now!
5. As a class, we will hear all groups and come up with five points for the whole class.  Facilitators should still submit what their groups did today.

IV. META: Did this activity impede or open your small group discussions?  What other discussion strategies have worked for YOU in classrooms?

V. Small Group Time/Groups of 3 

• 1) Select your three "roles": a) one person needs to facilitate, keep the discussion flowin, and watch the time; b) one person needs to write out the collective statement; c) one person needs to read the statement to the whole class w/ some kind of swag puhllease...


• 2) Everyone should share their journal writings and thoughts on Cooper's essay.


• 3) Together, write a statement (prosaic or poetic) that defines: "BLACK GIRL (LITERACY) IS A VERB."  Person B should write the statement and be prepared to submit it at the end of class (write it out or email/google-doc it to Carmen at [email protected])

VI. Group Aloud Readings

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