1. GRDG526: Literacy, Language, & Diversity in American Education
Week 1
Dr. Gloria E. Jacobs
St. John Fisher College

2. Agenda Introductions Myths & Monsters Syllabus Discuss the readings
Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model of human development & Self-Analysis
Break
Logistics: Nursing 308
Prep for next class

3. Introductions Say your name What are your expectations for class?
Where do you teach, grade level, discipline or specialty

4. Myths & Monsters
Hand in your index cards with questions.

5. Syllabus What is important to me? What is important to you?
What makes a class work for you?
Building a course covenant.

6. Break
Go to Nursing 308

7. Discuss Readings Clarify any terms you need to from S&D
This should be a review of what you learned as undergrads
Recitatif
How did you label the different characters according to race and social class?
What within the story did you use to label the race/social class of the characters?
What from your own life did you draw on to develop a picture of the two main characters?
Where within the story are your assumptions challenged?
Use the “isms” as identified by S&D to understand your response to Recitatif. What “isms” does Morrison trigger?

8. A Lens for Understanding
Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model of human development
Modeling
Self-analysis & sharing

9. Next Week McDermott, R., Varenne, H. (1995).
Website: Race, Are We So Different?
"Timeline Movie"
"Human Variation Quiz"
"A Girl Like Me" video
"Who is White" quiz
RadioLab’s podcast on race
Wiki posting #1
Begin reading Johnston, P. (2004). Choice Words.

10. Logistics Join the GRDG526 group on Facebook.
Establish engrade account
Create a gmail account
Complete the Urban Teaching Scale.
Write first wiki post