I. Announcements
Welcome back from Spring Break!  Next week is our last reading assignment.  After that, we move into final projects (the syllabus will remain unchanged as per our vote).

​II. Conversations w/ Ta-Nehisi Coates

• It seems most in the class read Between the World and Me.  So let's divide up the small group conversations this way: Each Coates reader should partner with a non-Coates reader.  We'll see how it works... in this way, we can bring Coates into conversation with EVERYONE else.
• In your partnered conversations, share the main points and impressions from your text
• In your partnered discussions, what does this have to do with AALiteracies?  Black masculinities and literacies? Schooling in the context of race (and countercultures)?

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Our Question: What does this mean for classrooms?  for curriculum?  for literacies?
(particularly our time and place given the 120 young black men shackled & arrested in the Bronx last week as the "biggest crime syndicate in NYC history")

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III. Open Discussions
IV. Last Hype Presentation (5:55pm): Sara

"Black Boy Interrupted: American Plunder and the Incomplete Life of Jordan Davis"

A Quick Sampling of Videos about Between the World and Me

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                                                             LAST NOTE:

• Sign-up for your chapter in the final reading: True to the Language Game by Keith Gilyard
• Think about the longtitudinal view: if we think about research and educational change related to African American language and literacies, what do we do in the next five years?  the next ten years?  the next twenty years?

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