September 16,2009

Today we started with a noun/proper noun word game and the students seem take to it immediately! We moved into a discussion on racism and the "n-word" and where it comes from and why it is never appropriate to use. The kids really did a nice job with this. They did a free write about their feelings following this talk and could write and/or draw about what they feel about racism and the use of that word. We then went over vocabulary 1. They have the definitions that will be on the quiz. And, finally, I assigned the first chapter of Huckleberry Finn.