Book Club Book (Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi)
In Humanities, we've been working on reading skills (This being in annotating certain text, or actually reading a book.) I choose to read is Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.
Main Project: For the MAIN project, I will be making a documentary about the stories of people. I am doing this because I am practicing the art of storyrtelling |
Intersectionality and Perspectives Project
Stereotypes and Lenses
Unfair Project
Literary Theories
Focus on issues of identity and representation in texts and analyze the cultural traditions of marginalized populations. It attempts to expose assumptions held within dominant discourses and how these are represented in texts.
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Most typically examines the internal mentl states, the desires, and the motivations of literry characters or of the author themselves, considering the possible unconscious urges that may have driven an author to write a particular text
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Concerns itself with class diferences, economics, and the implications of the capitalist system. It attepmts to reveal the ways in which our socioeconomic system is the root of opur experience and show that economics drives everything
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Explores issues of sexuality, power, and marginalized populations. It is heavily informed by feminist perspectives, but the believes that it is too liiting to talk about male s. female and instead view gender as fluid and not extreme
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Concerned with the ways in which literature reinforces the economic, political, social, and psychological oppression of women. It examines how aspects of our culture are inherently patriachal or male dominated and strive to expose the explicit and implicit misogyny in male writing about women
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Believe that a text is meaningless until a reader examines and responds to it. It is grounded in the belief that readers actively create, rather than passively discover, meaning in a text. This process is guided by personal or societal goals, norms, and rules
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Readings in Class
My Dungeon Shook
by James Baldwin |
The Homeland, Aztlán
El otro México by Gloria Anzaldua |
Not an Elegy for Mike Brown
by Mike Brown |
How It Feels to Be Colored Me
by Zora Neale Hurston |
Who Said It Was Simple
by Audre Lorde |
'They told Us They were Here to Help Us.' Then Came Slaughter
by Dionne Searcey |
Our project was inspired by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's TED TALK, The Danger of a Single Story |
Documentry
Honors for Humanities
What I learned?
In Honors for Humanities , I learn how to properly annotate a article or reading, and how to make a persuasive response rebutting the ideas learned shared in the readings while at the same time showing my understanding of the ideas the reading was attempting to portray.
What was difficult/easy?
One of the most difficult things in honors this semester was time management. This year I had to manage my participation in Youth in Government, Boys Swimming/Diving, organizing Debate Club, and managing a normal high school social life. There were many things this year on my plate and I feared I bit off more than I can chew by also taking on Honors for every class offering it.
Something that was easy for me was finding what I had to do for my honors assignments. This was easy because everything that I had to remember to do was already on google classroom which I had easy access to at school and at home.
In Honors for Humanities , I learn how to properly annotate a article or reading, and how to make a persuasive response rebutting the ideas learned shared in the readings while at the same time showing my understanding of the ideas the reading was attempting to portray.
What was difficult/easy?
One of the most difficult things in honors this semester was time management. This year I had to manage my participation in Youth in Government, Boys Swimming/Diving, organizing Debate Club, and managing a normal high school social life. There were many things this year on my plate and I feared I bit off more than I can chew by also taking on Honors for every class offering it.
Something that was easy for me was finding what I had to do for my honors assignments. This was easy because everything that I had to remember to do was already on google classroom which I had easy access to at school and at home.