Monday, January 14
     • Story telling - 2 minutes
     • World News Today
     • In-class reading time - 10 minutes Purple Hibiscus  or choice reading.
     • Code Switching Day 1
    • List slang terms that kids use, that adults don't.  Table groups and the
     • Read How Code Switching Explains the World
     • Code Switching handout
     • Code Switching clips.  Key and Peele - Anger Translator, Kevin Hart - Gentrification  Does these qualify?  If so, how?
Homework:
     • Read Purple Hibiscus pages 240-253 for Tuesday

Tuesday
     • Story telling - 2 minutes
     • World News Today
     • In-class reading time - 10 minutes Purple Hibiscus  or choice reading.
     • Code Switching Day 2
     • How Code Switching Explains the World - Read HERE
     • View Key and Peele's comedy sketches related toCode Switching.  Here are the titles of several sketches that are relevant to Code Switching.
          • Key and Peele:  Obama's Anger Translator
          • Key and Peele:  Substitute Teacher Parts 1 and 2
​          • Key and Peele:  Obama Meet and Greet
​          • Key and Peele:  Soul Food
​          • Key and Peele:  Pizza Order
​Code Switching and video Clips HERE

Homework:
     • Read Purple Hibiscus pages 257-270 for Wednesday

Wednesday
     • Story telling - 2 minutes
     • In-class reading time - 10 minutes Purple Hibiscus  or choice reading.
     • World News Today
    • Purple Hibiscus and the use of Silence
Homework:
     • Read Purple Hibiscus pages 271-287 for Thursday
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Thursday
     • Story telling - 2 minutes
     • In-class reading time - 10 minutes Purple Hibiscus  or choice reading.
     • World News Today
     • Hibiscus/Flower Motif
Homework:
     • Read Purple Hibiscus pages 288-305 for Friday
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Friday
​     • Story telling - 2 minutes
     • World News Today   
     • In-class reading time - 10 minutes Purple Hibiscus  or choice reading. 
     • Bug Motif
     • Silence Motif
     • Hibiscus/Flower Motif
     • Code Switching 

   • Current Events:
          1st Zofia    2nd None    3rd None
     • Discuss Purple Hibiscus motif. 
     • Purple Hibiscus Predictions - from the first day of this novel.
     
Monday, January 20, 2020
NO School - Dr. Martin Luther King Celebration!
• Honoring Dr. King:
• March from Selma to Montgomery - PBS Eyes on the Prize
Here are a few of the speeches that have inspired me:
• Montgomery - How Long, Not Long Speech
• Dr. King's - His Last Speech - 
​• Civil Rights Museum - Memphis
• Interesting read from The New York Times