Week 11: August 11, 2013For those of you paying attention, there is no week 11 for the students that have been diligently working all summer. To those students, CONGRATULATIONS! You have done an amazing job and worked hard to move yourselves closer to your goals. I have been quite impressed with your insight and responses. However, for those of you that have not completed all the work, week 11 (and 12) is the time to catch up. Those who participated regularly were able to earn some perks which are no longer available. Those students that are done or close to it will be receiving a grading sheet via email in the next week. A hard copy will also be available at orientation for you or your parents. Particularly for those who are really just getting started, please remember that this is you first test grade of the year. I will close all the discussion blogs at midnight on August 24th. The summer reading will be over when school begins, and we will begin with the textbooks on the first day of school, so please make sure that you have those books. If you have just recently enrolled, please make sure that you contact me at [email protected] so that we can make sure that any work that you should have done is completed. A poor first test grade will be a difficult hurdle for any student to overcome, so consider getting the work done now! Again, if you have any questions, please email me and I will work with you.
As a reminder as well, 9th Geography students need to make sure that you have you summer packet completed by the first day of school. You may print the packet and write it out on the paper or simply write out the answers on notebook paper. The main thing that I will be grading for is that you completed the assignment and were thinking about the maps, charts, and graphs as you were working. There may be two or more correct observations for many of the items, so if you see things differently from your friend, it is okay. Again, if you have any questions, please feel free to send me an email. |
June 1, 2013
This summer, we are taking an alternate approach to summer work. We will be utilizing a unit study of African American authors with additional student activities in vocabulary practice, SAT and ACT practice, and writing practice through weekly discussion blog questions, the student's personal blog entries, as well as periodic essay assignments. Our students will have multiple short weekly assignments to complete. All assignments are due by the due dates; however, they may be completed as far in advance of the due date as is convenient for the student. Present CCS students are expected to complete work on time. Weekly assignments are cataloged under the weekly tabs at the top of the page. New to CCS students, please check the "New Student" tab and follow the instructions to jump into the summer reading based upon your enrollment date. We believe that the new format of the summer work will allow our students to keep their skills sharp over the summer and perhaps even acquire some new knowledge!
This summer, we are taking an alternate approach to summer work. We will be utilizing a unit study of African American authors with additional student activities in vocabulary practice, SAT and ACT practice, and writing practice through weekly discussion blog questions, the student's personal blog entries, as well as periodic essay assignments. Our students will have multiple short weekly assignments to complete. All assignments are due by the due dates; however, they may be completed as far in advance of the due date as is convenient for the student. Present CCS students are expected to complete work on time. Weekly assignments are cataloged under the weekly tabs at the top of the page. New to CCS students, please check the "New Student" tab and follow the instructions to jump into the summer reading based upon your enrollment date. We believe that the new format of the summer work will allow our students to keep their skills sharp over the summer and perhaps even acquire some new knowledge!
The Passion of Purpose: African American Literature from 1700 to 1930
African American literature between 1700 and 1930 evolved as the relationship of African Americans to white American society transformed. In the colonial period, while still enslaved, African Americans had a more analogous situation to their white colonist counterparts. Both became unwilling and unhappy subjects to a sovereign. During the late colonial period and American Revolutionary War period, African Americans would have heard the cries of Patrick Henry for liberty and understood the desire to be free. With the penning of the Declaration of Independence, the slaves would have even had reason to hope that “all men are created equal” included them as well. Much to their disappointment, the founding fathers did not abolish slavery, and as the number of slaves increased, the subject of African American literature changed. Eloquently expounding equality and abolitionism, African American authors sought to persuade white Americans to free the slaves through multiple genres. With the end of the Civil War, once again African Americans had hope that was soon thwarted. As the nation strove to subvert the freedmen, once again African American authors used various forms of literature to fight stereotypes and attempt to claim true equality. African America authors of 1700 to 1930 passionately and purposely utilized literature as a means to reason with the dominant culture for true equality.