I. Announcements

• There is no class next week as Carmen will be returning from the Watson Conference at the University of Louisville
• Please do your webpage for your hype presentation (post it for that day or as soon after as you can). Please see Carmen for any help you might need with weebly.
• Please be prepared for your colleagues to read your homework/writing next week!  It's too, too good to keep to yourselves.
  
• Can Carmen post your posters from last week to the Self-Taught webpage?
  
• Please visit Jenn's website & blog soon... and leave her a note.  Click here for her site or link there from this website's homepage.  

II. Text-Rendering

• Take (at least) a paragraph from your writing and read it aloud. Feel free to read more than that though.

                                                       OR

• Take a paragraph (or two paragraphs) from Dr. E's book and read that aloud, explaining the significance of the words for you.

III. Open Discussion

1. What are the central arguments that you focused on when you read African American Literacies? Why?

Iv. Partnered Discussion & Whole Class Sharing

1. What ARE African American Literacies?  What difference does that make?
2. How might we describe the two videos/performances AS African American literacies?  ​

V. (If Time) Spottswood Rice: Black Civil War Soldiers and African American Literacies

VI. SETH'S HYPE: Digital Griots