PASSWORD:

" An open window is......................................"

B&B for next class:

• Read the two first pages of the story " the Open Window"
• Find info about how the Pope's manhood is checked:)

JOKES:

VOCABULARY Focus:

SONG: Open Window

PASSWORD:

Choose one quotation:

• Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.          Brooke Shields

• People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. Rogers Hornsby
• Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity. Herbert Hoover
  
• Bad weather always looks worse through a window. Tom Lehrer

B&B for next class:

   *Offer an example of each aspect of the     Harlem Renaissance or

 "New Negro Movement"

Music, dancing, poetry, fashion, literature, cinema, drama, art, religion.

*Look for information about early teens behaviour.

GREAT Unknown AUTHORS of the HARLEM RENNAISANCE:

                                                      by Marco

VOCABULARY Focus 1:

                Put out: o cause bother or trouble to/ to annoy.

Stiffen: to become less relaxed and more formal/ to become or make something stronger or more difficult

Pout: to push the lower lip forward to show you are annoyed, or to push both lipsforward in a sexually attractive way

Surliness: often in a bad mood, unfriendly, and not polite

Gasp: to take a short, quick breath through the mouth, especially because ofsurprise, pain, or shock

Scarlet woman: a woman who is considered to be immoral because she has sex with a lot of men

Sultry: (especially of a woman's face or voice) sexually attractive in a way thatsuggests sexual desire

Drily: /ˈdraɪ.li/ being funny in a way that is not obvious:

VOCABULARY Focus 2:

SONG:

PASSWORD: Choose one;)

B&B for next class:

• Finish reading the short story.
• Read poems by Lanston Hughes and write your own poem to Arnie, Amanda, Claudine, The Pembertons or other character in the short story.

Famous Speeches :)

VOCABULARU Focus 1:

• The child was five when his father was drafted; and…326
• The Pumbertons were never known to shirk a duty.326
• A little white spot in a forest of white heads above the stiff pews.327
• Throughout the years the whole of Mapleton began to preen itself on its charity.327
• Everyone was a little baffled and a little ashamed.328
• The black kids from the slums of Boston who cussed and fought and made fun of him…328
• He went to a senior prom 329
• But he was a lucky chap. 329
• Claudina sang divinely and danced like a dryad. 330
• Claudina was playing whist. 331
• A native orchestra would play rattles and drums.332
• Some rather ederly musicians were in spats.332

VOCABULARY Focus 2:

four score & seven years ago/ five score years ago
piggybag: to use something that already exists or has already been done successfully to do something else quickly or effectively
neard = geek
defer: to delay something until a later time:
sag: to drop down to a lower level in the middle/ to become weaker
footage: (a piece of) film especially one showing an event:
raft:a piece of text, a formal suggestion, or a drawing in its original state, often containing the main ideas and intentions but not the developed form:
rough paper:  paper that is used for the first versions of a drawing, piece of writing, or calculation

POETRY by Langton Hughes

SONG:

Password:

You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,

You may kill me with your hatefulness,

But still, like air, I'll rise.

Maya Angelou

B&B for next class:

• Read four more pages of the short story " Poor Little Black fellow" ( up to V )
• Look for information related to the Harlem Rennaisance.

DEBATE: Green vs Blue

VOCABULARY awareness:

VOCABULARY Revision:

African Diaspora /daɪˈæs.pər.ə/ the spreading of people from one original country to other countries.

Apartheid: /əˈpɑː.taɪt/ /-teɪt/  (in the past in South Africa) a political system in which people of different races were separated

Unalienable rights: /ʌnˈeɪ.li.ə.nə.bl̩/

Nullification: To nullify / ˈnʌl.ɪ.faɪ/ to cause something to have no value or effect:

Emancipation /ɪˌmæn.sɪˈpeɪ.ʃən/

Exile /ˈek.saɪl/ /ˈeɡ.zaɪl/ the condition of someone being sent or kept away from their own country,village, etc., especially for political reasons:

undercover racism  /ˌʌn.dəˈkʌv.ər/ working secretly using a false appearance in order to get information for the police or government:

passive agressive

Words in Poem by Maya Angelou: "Still I Rise"

Sassy: rude and showing no respect 

Beset: having a lot of trouble with something, or having to deal with a lot of something that causes problems

Haughtiness: haughty:  /ˈhɔː.ti/   unfriendly and seeming to consider yourself better than other people

wondrously: extremely, used to emphasize an approving description