AP Language and Composition 11/14/13 Agenda Bell ringer: JUST WRITE! Focus word: IRREVERENT (lacking proper respect; almost in a humorous sense) Weekly Overview and Today’s Objectives: TH-JUST WRITE!, discuss Baldwin essay is small groups, assign modeling narrative HW FRI-Grammar, Chris and Jabriel’s current event, bring all narrative first drafts completed in green folders

“A Talk to Teachers” Let’s discuss our annotations…finally! Then: James Baldwin ends his famous 1963 speech, “A Talk to Teachers” with the following lines: “America is not the world and if America is going to become a nation, she must find a way – and this child must help her to find a way to use the tremendous potential and tremendous energy which this child represents. If this country does not find a way to use that energy, it will be destroyed by that energy. It has been fifty years since that speech. Do you think America’s educational system has properly allowed children to channel this nation’s negative historical energy into creating a more just country?

HOMEWORK DUE FRIDAY: “A Talk to Teachers” – Narrative modeling assignment If it’s 2013 and you were asked to address a room of white teachers of minority students, what would your talk to teachers be? What experiences of your own (or those you know well) would you include in your advice? Write a narrative essay that is also persuasive in which you detail one or more of your own experiences with the educational system. Try to focus on specific instances and give descriptive details or add dialogue and action to tell the story. Don’t just give your opinion as this is a narrative essay as well as a persuasive one.