TUNE IN TO 90.7 "1,000 WELCOMES" and "THISTLE and SHAMROCK" programs FOR IRISH MUSIC EVERY SAT from 8 a.m.-2 p.m.FOR THOSE READING "ANGELA'S ASHES", by Frank McCourt

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” ~ Lloyd Alexander

Great Turn-out in HARLEM

Congratulations to those 50 or so who attended yesterday's Harlem trip. I'd like to especially thank Allison at the Stromburg whom showed that brief video, where some, like Shyrin snapped a few photos!

Also Ms. Thomas for those who are lucky enough to get a photo of her and proactive enough to interview her concerning her Civil Rights involvement as that's our LAST UNIT of the year.

Again, thanks to Mr. Kozak and Ms. Walrond for helping Ms. Moore and I plan this with valuable insights and graphics (detailed maps) and other logistical help.

Lastly, about 11 scholars joined me at Fishers of Men II on 125 Street near Lenox, for more seafood and some chicken (smuggled in from another local buffet).


                


      

 

As mentioned a couple times during the tour, Alvin Alley's Dance Troupe occasionally has Student's Days or discounted tickets. They also offer dance classes and other opportunities to "express" yourself!










“A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” ~ The United Negro College Fund (slogan) http://www.uncf.org/

DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH - POETRY SLAM FUNDRAISER - Sat. May 7 2-5 p.m BROOKLYN + OPEN MIC

Extra Credit for anyone who attends and writes up a reflection [50-100]

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” ~ Lloyd Alexander

4-28-11 Trip departs at 1:35 p.m. from 2nd Floor Entrance (doors facing Fire Department) - Bring RAIN GEAR just in case

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” ~ Lloyd Alexander

Groups and Cameras for Harlem Photo Essay 4-28-11

Total 51 with permission slips in and scheduled to attend:

Richen Dolma
Jahziel James
Roxanne Coleman
Harold Peralta
Riyesh Nath
Laura Kabadi
Allison Li
Kristine Buckheit

Brenda Morales
Jadzia Ramsay

Sheniece Bunyan
Emily Chen
Robert Bronchard
Mohammad Farhan
Mohammed Hussain
Rokeya Begum
Iqra Amin
Yan Kadori
Anisah Ahmed
Rebekah Goberdhan

Alexandra Castro
Elfrin Cedeno
Renee Drummond
Delorian Nappi
Naurin Khondoker
Samantha Sun
Natalia San Pablo
Shakif Awsaf
Bryan Duran
Yomiuri Ortiz
Ricky Dundi
Sukamol Chonpatawat
Lisbeth Guzman
Muyiwa Adeyeye

Valentin Castillo
Abby Scuesa

_______________________________________
Normally in P7 and P8 with Moore or I

Mikhail Green
Khalid Haynes
John Morales
Alex Erazo
Ernesto Malaluan
Mandy Zhao
Jamie McCoy
Mike Lin
Regina Hembrador
Hana Lee
Delmy Del Cid

Leonela Contreras* 
 Alexus Murray*

Jennifer Khan
Priyanka Verma
Amy Lau
Shyrin Hasan
Stephanie Garces
Sabrina Fletcher

Groups will be responsible for arranging ONLY one camera per group of 4 scholars. Ms. Walrond, and I will have extra cameras for those whose members flaked.

The Negro Speaks of Rivers   

by Langston Hughes

I've known rivers:

I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the

     flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.

I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.

I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.

I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln 

     went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy 

     bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

I've known rivers:

Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

_______________   ___________________ 

Well, son, I'll tell you:
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
It's had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor --
Bare.
But all the time
I'se been a-climbin' on,
And reachin' landin's,
And turnin' corners,
And sometimes goin' in the dark
Where there ain't been no light.
So boy, don't you turn back.
Don't you set down on the steps
'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
Don't you fall now --
For I'se still goin', honey,
I'se still climbin',
And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

                                    by Langston Hughes

Give this second poem a Title________________________________________

Why have you titled it this?

Haircut  by Elizabeth Alexander

I get off the IRT in front of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture after riding an early Amtrak from Philly to get a hair cut at what used to be the Harlem "Y" barbershop. It gets me in at ten to ten. Waiting, I eat fish cakes at the Pam Pam and listen to the ladies call out orders: bacon-biscuit twice, scrambled scrambled fried, over easy, grits, country sausage on the side. Hugh is late. He shampoos me, says "I can't remember, Girlfriend, are you tender-headed?" From the chair I notice the mural behind me in the mirror. I know those overlapped sepia shadows, a Renaissance rainforest, Aaron Douglas! Hugh tells me he didn't use primer and the chlorine eats the colors every day. He clips and combs and I tell him how my favorite Douglas is called "Building More Stately Mansions," and he tells me how fly I'd look in a Salt 'n' Pepa 'do, how he trained in Japan.

Clip clip, clip clip. I imagine a whoosh each time my hair lands on the floor and the noises of small brown mammals. I remember, my father! He used to get his hair cut here, learned to swim in the caustic water, played pool and basketball. He cuts his own hair now. My grandfather worked seventy-five years in Harlem building more stately mansions. I was born two blocks away and then we moved.

None of that seems to relate to today. This is not my turf, despite the other grandfather and great-aunt who sewed hearts back into black chests after Saturday night stabbings on this exact corner, the great-uncle who made a mosaic down the street, both grandmothers. What am I always listening for in Harlem? A voice that says, "This is your place, too," as faintly as the shadows in the mural? The accents are unfamiliar; all my New York kin are dead. I never knew Fats Waller but what do I do with knowing he used to play with a ham and a bottle of gin atop his piano; never went to Olivia's House of Beauty but I know Olivia, who lives in St. Thomas, now, and who exactly am I, anyway, finding myself in these ghostly, Douglas shadows while real ghosts walk around me, talk about my stuff in the subway, yell at me not to butt the line, beg me, beg me, for my money?

What is black culture? I read the writing on the wall on the side of the "Y" as I always have: "Harlem Plays the Best Ball in the World." I look in the mirror and see my face in the mural with a new haircut. I am a New York girl; I am a New York woman; I am a flygirl with a new hair cut in New York City in a mural that is dying every day.

Elizabeth Alexander was born in 1962 in Harlem

Fats Waller— May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943

Not only was Fats Waller one of the greatest pianists jazz has ever known, he was also one of its most exuberantly funny entertainers -- and as so often happens, one facet tends to obscure the other. His extraordinarily light and flexible touch belied his ample physical girth; he could swing as hard as any pianist alive or dead in his classic James P. Johnson-derived stride manner, with a powerful left hand delivering the octaves and tenths in a tireless, rapid, seamless stream.

Themes and Areas of Interview Questions Harlem:

Ragtime

“Inherit the Wind” aka The Scopes “Monkey” Trial

“The Birth of a Nation” 1915 - propagandist movie 

The Great Migration

Suffragette 

The Harmon Foundation

Langston Hughes

Countee Cullen

World War I

The Great Depression

http://www.history.com/videos/the-harlem-renaissance-an-artistic-explosion#the-harlem-renaissance-an-artistic-explosion?vid=HIS_MRSS_Hulu

Tenement Building Tours - Interview Questions

Suffragette

Migration

Plights of the European 

The Waistshirt Fire

WW I

The Great Depression

Though these sites are primarily steps to interviewing for a JOB or entrance into a Uni or College of you choice, many of these hints are helpful when interviewing strangers for this project.

http://www.helpguide.org/life/interviewing_techniques_tips_getting_job.htm

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” ~ Lloyd Alexander

INTERVIEW Questions for Harlem and Tenement Tours

Themes and Areas of Interview Questions Harlem:

Ragtime

“Inherit the Wind” aka The Scopes “Monkey” Trial

“The Birth of a Nation” 1915 - propagandist movie 

The Great Migration

Suffragette 

The Harmon Foundation

Langston Hughes

Countee Cullen

World War I

The Great Depression

http://www.history.com/videos/the-harlem-renaissance-an-artistic-explosion#the-harlem-renaissance-an-artistic-explosion?vid=HIS_MRSS_Hulu

The Harlem Renaissance (2:53 mins) followed by:

Jacob Riis (2:07 mins)  - Tenement Buildings

The Statue of Liberty Unknown (3:40 mins).

Tenement Building Tours - Interview Questions

Suffragette

Migration

Plights of the European 

The Waistshirt Fire

WW I

The Great Depression

Though these sites are primarily steps to interviewing for a JOB or entrance into a Uni or College of you choice, many of these hints are helpful when interviewing strangers for this project.

http://www.helpguide.org/life/interviewing_techniques_tips_getting_job.htm

_________________________

Notebook Checks

Random Weekly quizzes = 50 points for all those you can demonstrate they have readily available and well organized notes going back at least two weeks: 

a. Date 

b. Aim 

c. Do Now

d. Answers, responses or evidence of DOING or accomplishing the Do Now

e. Notes from class discussions

Personal questions individual asked (often while waiting to pose our question we concentrate so intensely on remembering it, we fail to listen to other peers’ brilliant questions and responses - so WRITE YOUR QUESTION DOWN so you are able to focus upon others and take notes from them without forgetting our own.) 

___________________________

Other daily Notebook checks worth 10-30 points with special emphasis on current days’ notes:

1. Documentaries or other videos

2. class discussions - mentioned above

proof of participation of Do Now or class activity 

These two types of checks will take place so that those who fail one quiz have the opportunity of recuperating partial credit when they GET the notes by staying later after class, getting notes from those who have obtained them during class time.

Simply blindly copying others’ notes will not receive any credit. If scholar can not explain how notes pertain to reading materials, themes, Aim, topic of discussion, Activity or Do Now, they will only earn an even smaller credit for having the notes that mean absolutely nothing to them, which goes against College Readiness Skills, which states: note-taking is having notes that ‘they make sense to you”. 

Obviously, if scholar can not explain the notes, they are essentially useless.

_________________

“Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.” 

Russell Lynes 

“Ragtime was my lullaby.” 

Hoagy Carmichael 

Happy Easter! Passover!

Enjoy the day and celebrate the year.





“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” ~ Lloyd Alexander

A bit overdue - Talent Show Congrats

Congratulations to all those who participated in the Friday, April 8th Talent/Fashion Show:

Lisbeth and Hannifah’s dancing

Ernesto, Erik and all the rest whose names escape me at the moment?

Bianca Otley, from our Hunter College campus, belting out another amazing tune.

All the sophomore dancers Georgia, Symphony, Winifer, Sade and others who sang, Karol, Awilma, 

As well as Hannifah and Jerry’s MCing the entire night.

It is never right to play ragtime fast. 
Scott Joplin 

My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest. 
James Weldon Johnson 



“I read music so good, white folks think I'm fakin' it.” ~ Coalhouse Walker, Jr [Ragtime]

TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL - 10th Anniversary - Sports Day, Sat. April 30

Just in time for those looking for a little something extra these last few days of the break.

BUY in ADVANCE - click on that icon OR:


RUSH TICKETS:
Pick a show or two and head out to that theatre at least two hours BEFORE it shows.
Stand in long lines to get tickets.
Often people with extras will give great deals - it pays to be FIRST in line.

Great Documentaries
"Like Water" - middleweight Ultimate Fighter - Doc
Runs just over an hour
Plays tonight at 10 p.m. and
Next Sat. at 9 p.m.

"The Loving Story" - story of a mix-race couple fighting to overturn miscegenation laws
77 mins.
Runs
4-25 at 3 p.m.
4-27 at 5:30 p.m. - conversation with Director  Nancy Buirski afterward (SVA-2)
4-29 at 7 p.m.



Beats and Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
Wed. 4-27 @ 6 p.m.




Revenge of the Electric Car - TODAY 4-23 (5 p.m.)
4-27 at 5 p.m.
4-30 at 7 p.m.
_________________

Great original INDIE movies

Awesome Short Shorts (pick a day when seven or eight shorts are playing to get multiple views of particular topics. Often the directors, actors or others are there to field questions after these showings.

Head out today!

______________________
Tribeca SPORTS DAY
April 30, 2011




http://media.tribecafilm.com/documents/TFF+2011+Guide+full.pdf

http://www.tribecafilm.com/filmguide/


“The less routine the more life.”~ Amos Bronson Alcott

Clarificaton on Coulombe-Twain Essay - 3rd Draft

In order to earn the full 100 points for editing your essays:

 - You will make edits from my comments.  = 2nd Draft

 - Send that to whomever is your Peer Editor, making a 3rd Draft from that person's edits. 

That is what you'll e-mail or bring in on Wed. April 27. Total process = 100 points. Their e-mailed comments should be including in what you turn in with 

1. Original Draft

2. 2nd Draft (edits from my comments)

3. Peer Editor's comments - light yellow PE sheet filled out or e-mailed comments printed up

4. 3rd Draft

Sunday 4-24 = 4 updated book on Goodreads = 200 points

4-27-11 = 3rd Draft + other drafts  = 100 [+ 15 for those who scored extremely low on in-class essay]
4-27-11 = 5 Windows from first 150 pages of Ragtime.
For those on the college field trip, be sure to have work e-mailed to me before 5 p.m.
                           Peer Editing Checklist

Title of Essay__________________________ Edited by_____________________________date

Peer Editing Checklist

Before even picking up a pen or pencil, read the essay two (2) times through.

______Essay is in Standard MLA format (1” margins, Times New Roman, 12 font, Double Spaced

______Heading = NAME, DATE, Period and Teacher’s name (Single Spaced)

______Footer = Name—P4—Chasing American’s Dream

______# of ¶s

______Do all ¶s have 4-8 complete sentences on the same topic?

______Claim is clearly stated within Introduction ¶ Underline or HIGHLIGHT TS = CLAIM

______There are clear transitional sentences in________ ¶s

______This essay contains a variety of sentence structures = short simple punchy to

more compound, even complex sentences. 

  Ex: Calvin is Hip-Hop. He embodies the culture right down to the false and potentially deadly persona of tough Black man, aka Thug aka Burn. This is seen in his seemingly rational desire to gain “props” or respect by buying and then flashing a gun in another young black male’s face, one whom had allegedly disrespected his “women” verbally. Calvin is deluded.

______ Scholar has cited facts and evidence with explications (line or stanza #s OR page 3#s) from ALL SOURCES REQUIRED

______Counter CLAIM[s] have also be introduced and clarified with specific cited sources

______Conclusion is powerful, not repeating the T.S. exactly, however driving home writer’s

opinions.

______At least 10 vocabulary words have been used correctly according to part of speech.

Additional Comments:

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” ~ Lloyd Alexander

LOUDER THAN A BOMB & IMPROV EVERYWHERE

Ms. Walrond just e-mailed this. For those of you traveling this holiday week, this phenomenal show may be in a town near you.

If not, it official opens at the IFC Theatres on W4th (right across from the b-ball courts), May 18.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81hXGdFF6TQ






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXhBP3qFsWQ&feature=related












______________________________________________________


And....for examples of Street Art, check out:

http://improveverywhere.com/

or

http://improveverywhere.com/2011/01/31/worst-ice-skater-ever-2/









or simple do a Safe Search for other types of Street Art including Banksy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e0IJSOq0xg

or

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-499346/Graffiti-artist-Banksy-strikes--Bethlehem.html

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0b90YppquE&feature=related

and MOCA - in Los Angeles, has just opened a Street Art Exhibit - check it out for those of you in the area -

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/new-banksys-and-more-at-mocas


“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” ~ Lloyd Alexander

Spring Break Assignments

Break work: Read 15 pages/day Ragtime, by Doctorow (create Windows for every 30 pages)

Rewrites – Coulombe-Twain Essay

1. make edits from my comments

2. have PEER EDITS done –

3. make edits AFTER their edits

4. turn in 3^rd Draft 4-27-11 (those on college field trip must e-mail before noon all work)

5. update Goodreads = 4 text including “Finn”, ABC, The Eternal Smile and “Inherit” – and/or any other IRBs read during these last three weeks since finishing Huck Finn.

6. Portfolios - revise at least ONE more or write another three mini-reflections for May 18 due date.

7. for those looking to get ahead of the game, you will have to read an IRB from the following:

The Color of Water, by James McBride

Angela’s Ashes, by Frank McCourt

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston

Fences, by August Wilson

–    The Bread Givers, by Anzia Yezierska

–    The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” ~ Lloyd Alexander

HW, Cast for Inherit the Wind and Focus Questions, Vocabulary

Prep-Work for the ground-breaking, 1951 play, Inherit the Wind, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee—

For each item download a picture, glue to notebook and write a couple sentences, dates, explanations for each aspect of.

1. Look up “Bible Belt”
2. Look up Scopes “Monkey” Trials
3. William Jennings Bryan
4. Clarence Darrow
5. H.L. Mencken
6. Organ grinder
7. Hurdy-gurdy
8. Yellow Journalism
9. Et tu Brute
10. “Inherit the Wind” (Biblical excerpt)

Inherit the Wind, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee—Character Descriptions:

Bertram Cates (M, mid-20s)—A young schoolteacher who is on trial for violating a state law. 

Matthew Harrison Brady (M, 60- 65-ish)—Famous national political figure (the character is loosely based on William Jennings Bryan), gifted orator and self-proclaimed authority.

Henry Drummond (M, 60-65-ish) —A talented lawyer who defends Cates and views the law as a search for the truth. Loosely based on Clarence Darrow, the character has a quick mind; humorous, charming and folksy in court, but can be feisty and confrontational when setting a trap.

E.K. Hornbeck (M, 35-45) —Brilliant newspaper columnist and critic who covers the trial (loosely based on H.L. Mencken). He is contemptuous of the bigotry and ignorance that exists in the south and mocks them.

Rachel Brown (W, early-20s) — Daughter of Hillsboro minister, she is conflicted and torn between her feelings for Cates and duty to her father. 

Rev. Jeremiah Brown (M, 45-55) — Hillsboro minister who takes the word of God as truth and regards all deviations from that as blasphemous.

Judge (M, 45-60) —Attempts to conduct the trial impartially, despite his personal beliefs. 

Meeker (M, 40-60) — Court Bailiff who oversees the courtroom. Has an easy-going style.

Mayor (M, 40-55) — Epitomizes the small town mayor and politician. He is filled with self-importance and always considers how his actions will be viewed by his constituents.  

Tom Davenport (M, 35-45) — Ambitious District Attorney who, along with Brady, prosecutes Cates.

Melinda (W, 10-13) — Young Hillsboro girl 

Elijah (M, 40-60) —An illiterate Hillsboro local who considers himself a prophet and comes to town preaching his beliefs and selling Bibles. 

Townspeople, Trial Spectators, Reporters, Jurors (M & W, various ages) -  A variety of stylized and humorous character roles.  —http://lcplayers.com/Shows/InheritTheWind/InheritTheWind.html  

Inherit the Wind, Vocabulary and Focus Questions

As you read, make a Flow Chart of the Action

1. Draw a large Flow Chart similar to the one below and add instead:
2. beginning = rising action, characters, setting and developing conflict(s)
3. middle (CLIMAX, which usually comes near the end of the story, play, movie, novel, is represented here as the highest point of action)
4. the denouement – falling action
5. end – or wrapping up all loose ends

Along the outside and inside of Flow Chart, write important event along graph.

Beginning                      Middle                                     End

1. Describe Meeker, Melinda, Rachel and Bert Cates

2. Why is Cates so adamant about returning to the jail (cell)?

3. Describe the Atmosphere of these first seven pages. How does it make you feel? Why?

4. There are two moments of Foreshadowing throughout the play—see if you can spot them—how do authors lead readers to infer outcomes?

5. Why does Drummond accept Mr. Stillers, the Feed Store owner?

6. Explain how Voice of Reason shifts from pages 30-44

                                    Vocabulary

1. haberdasher—pg 13—(n)— a retail dealer in men's furnishings, as shirts, ties, gloves, socks, and hats.

Mr. Allen’s kids went to the haberdasher to by him some new ties and shirts for Father’s Day.

2. extradite —(pg 11)—(v)— to give up (an alleged fugitive or criminal) to another state, nation, or authority.

Many wish to extradite Gaddafi so justice will truly be meted out.

syn—apprehend, surrender, deliver

PAGE 15 vocab =

3. Bible Belt—(n)

4. Unctuously—adv— hypocritically smooth and suave

Many haughty politicians unctuously assail President Obama for failing to fix the country faster. Still, surprisingly, Obama remains undaunted.

5. Undaunted—(adj)— not dismayed or discouraged

Undaunted by the huge haughty,(adj) Cyclops, Homer killed him with his paraphernalia.

6. (An) infidel  —n—a person who has no religious faith

Many infidels are haughtily assailed for being non-conformists.

7. (an) evolutionist—n—a person who believes that all living things have acquired their present forms through successive generations

Millions of people believe it's a daunting (v) task assailing and disproving evolutionists's theories. 

The great evolutionist, Charles Darwin once said, “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."

PAGE pg16 VOCAB

8. haughtily—(adj)— disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant;

syn—supercilious,

9. organ grinder—(n)

10. hurdy-gurdy—(adj) or (n)—

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11. Yellow Journalism—(n)

12. pith helmet-(n) a softer, dome-shaped helmet used in African Safaris

           

The explorers dived into the underbrush, praying their pith helmets and other paraphernalia would protect them from stampeding giraffes.

13. patriarch-(n)-the male head of a family, tribe, as in ancient times; any of the three family line of Israelites—Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob #3—highest ranking bishop in the Eastern Orthodox Church

In many aboriginal tribes, the Shaman, or Medicine Man, was the patriarch.

14. paunchy—(adj)—a large protruding belly

After years of living “The Good Life”, their paunches were so big they couldn’t tie their own shoes, let alone see their feet. (n)

Ant—a "six-pack"

syn—"beer belly", fat (not phat!)

15. suffrage—(19)—n—the right to vote

The suffragettes were many unsung heroes, women who fought for suffrage.

16. paraphernalia—(n)—(pg 20)—articles of equipment need for some activity

17. blasphemies—(n)—21—irreverent utterance or actions against God

Jewish people refuse to say or even write G-d out for they believe it is a blasphemy to use or say the word if not in prayer. 

18. assails—(v)—to attack violently—#2 to attack with criticism

David assailed Goliath with his only paraphernalia, a sling shot.

Jefferson and Clemens assailed African Americans with their paraphernalia of words, in order to feel more haughty.

“While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.”

~ Mark Twain

“If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.” 
                                        ~ Judith Hayes

ABC — complete by Friday, April 8 — Prepare for Culminating Writing

Due to some supply issues we will allow scholars an extra couple of days to read ABC—borrow from friends who have already read it, get copies or download on the computers. However, by Friday, April 8, it is everyone's responsibility to have read ABC, by Yang ready for discussions and written responses that not only reflect classroom discussions, but personal opinions from interacting with it and the Introduction  and short Essays excerpted from Chinese America: The Untold Story of America’s Oldest New Community, by Peter Kwong & Dusanka Miscevic.

Additionally, those finished with ABC should sign out Yang's other one The Eternal Smile on Ms. Walrond's desk and read that as supporting information toward the same themes of Identity, Escapism, Racist Epithets and other themes discussed in Peter Kwong & Dusanka Miscevic's Introduction and short Essays. 


Be prepared for a final write-up without notes comparing these two Chinese-American POVs.

Otherwise, any other Graphic Novel of choice should be read in the interim between finishing out The Gilded Age and beginning The Harlem Renaissance Unit (approximately Monday, April 11 - May 26), beginning with the short 1951 play, Inherit the Wind, by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee—

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” ~ Lloyd Alexander

The Tenement Acts and The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Trips May 2 and 4th $7 per scholar

Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about.
                                                          Yiddish Proverb



Additionally, in the beginning of May, we'll be visiting one of the sites of NYC's worst disaster prior to The World Trade attacks.








He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.
                                                                      Yiddish Proverb

Early Tenement Acts

This was not the first time that New York State passed a public law that specifically dealt with housing reform. The First Tenement House Act (1867) required fire escapes and a window for every room, the Second Tenement House Act (1879) required that windows face a source of fresh air and light, not an interior hallway.


 An amendment of 1887 required privies interior to the building. The failures of the Second Act - the air shafts proved to be unsanitary as they filled with garbage, bilge water and waste—led to the 1901 "New Law" and its required courtyard designed for garbage removal.





     Who were the victims? 





   what does this cartoon mean?    


     1911 aftermath of Shirtwaist Fire
  

“Life is the greatest bargain - we get it for nothing”
                  Yiddish Proverb




http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/


Murder or a tragic accident predicated on several different failures?


“Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be spewed out”
                                                             Yiddish Proverb