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Tuesdays 6pm-7:30 p.m. Karen M. Adrián Thursdays 6pm-7:30 p.m. adrian.km@easthartford.org
 * [|EAST HARTFORD ADULT EDUCATION] ** ** English Literature **   ** Fall 2011 **

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This class is offered to the students of the East Hartford's Adult Education Credit Diploma Program for .5 credits toward an East Hartford High School diploma. The class meets from 6:00 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The first session will run from September 13th until November 22nd. The second session will run from December 5th until March 1st, and the third session from March 5th until May 17th.

// **Overview**: // This course will cover the novel // Black Like Me // by John Howard Griffin that addresses the issues of prejudice, racism, colorism, and tolerance. As a literature course, we will read the book in class while reading and writing assignments will be given for homework. There will also be journal writing, a semester project, in-class literature circles, group work and discussions, a gallery walk, and varied reading strategies targeting different learning styles.


 * // Essential Questions: //**
 * "Black men told me that the only way a white man could hope to understand anything about this reality was to wake up some morning in a Black man’s skin” (Griffin 161).
 * What causes change? Does literature cause change? How?

// **Key Learning**: // Development of reading comprehension using various strategies in preparation for a lifetime of critical reading and community involvement.

// **Skills**: //
 * Use text reading to build comprehension skills through before, during, and after activities
 * Identify connections (text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-others)

// **NCTE Standards**: // 2. Students read a wide variety of literature from many periods in many genres to build an understanding of the many dimensions of human experience.

3. Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features.

8. Students use a variety of technological and information resources (computer networks, video) to gather and synthesize information and to create and communicate knowledge.