1)Jessica and I and draft and revise her short essay/essay responses to the Common Application for the University of Pennsylvania.
2)Discuss Passing Chapters 1 and 2, Part 2.
Jess will do the chapter 12 review for homework and will take the chapter 12 test in class tomorrow. We will be finished with the material before break, and Jess will work on completing her final project over break and the last week of class.
1) Discuss Passing Chapters 3-4: Oral quiz, what major, scandalous event happens at the "tea party?". In what ways is Irene also "passing" or pretending to be white? Is it a pretense if one does not correct a misinterpretation of one's race? What are the risks that Clare may face if John Bellows discovers that she is a black woman? Who is Gertrude? How does she contribute to our "passing" scale? Is race a public or private affair?
2) Work on Common Application's Benjamin Franklin Essay
Introduction to the Harlem Renaissance and Passing Chapters 1 and 2
Lesson Outline
1) Discuss the history of the Harlem Renaissance: post-slavery, Jim-Crow laws and segregation, rise of intellectual class of African Americans (Howard University, Dubois, Talented 10th mentality), thriving black, urban communities.
2) Harlem Renaissance Film
3) Discuss Chapters 1 and 2 of Nella Larson's Passing: Define Passing. Why, in the interest of self, would one consider passing in the America of the 1920s? Define race. How, in our society, are issues like race/ethnicity classified? Are there any ways of eluding these classification systems? How are Irene and Clare similar in their means of passing? How are they different?
Jessica will be able to: 1) Find a confidence interval for the slope of a regression line; 2) Perform a significance test for the slope of a regression line.
