"That's my report card, and HERE'S my position questioning the validity of the testing process."

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   "That's my report card, and HERE'S my position
questioning the validity of the testing process."
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Einstein! Stop fooling around and pay attention!
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C.R.E.A.T.E. NJ
Star-Ledger Article
Portfolios Its not what counts..... Its what
matters
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Newark Reads Du Bois
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First Ever City Sponsored Literary Event
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Newark Public Library
Rutgers University
Newark Public Schools
Newark City Council
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Why Now?
As a point of reference
Born FEB 23/1868 Great Barrington,
MS Dutch/African/German parents William Edward
Burghardt Du Bois
1903
1963
2003
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HEREIN lie buried many things which if read with
patience may show the strange meaning of being
black here in the dawning of the Twentieth
Century. This meaning is not without interest to
you, Gentle Reader for the problem of the
Twentieth Century is the problem of the
color-line. -WEB Du Bois
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AMISTAD BILL
to develop, in consultation with the Department
of Education, curriculum guidelines for the
teaching of information on the African slave
trade, slavery in America, the vestiges of
slavery in this country, and the contributions of
African-Americans to our country. Every board of
education shall incorporate the information in an
appropriate place in the curriculum of elementary
and secondary school students.
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Newark Student Leaders Referendum focus question
Should the US Government be held responsible for
slave reparations?
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About the Author
video
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How might the issues presented in The Souls of
Black Folk influence our work as teachers and
with other teachers?
Connections Article
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What are additional connections for us? Is
self-awareness of our own soulimportant to us
as teachers? To our students?
Working with your partner, briefly discuss the
following statement.........
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Children learn more from what you are than what
you teach. WEB Dubois  
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Social Studies / Literacy Connections
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The idea of hope and learning coming from within
rather than from without was very crucial for Du
Bois.
He is afraid of the results of "a land where, in
the higher walks of life, in all the higher
striving for the and noble and true, the
color-line comes to separate natural friends and
coworkers..
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A Sample Lesson Using the Du Bois
materials..Touchstones / Grade 6
Directions Read Selection Pg. 63 Complete
handout Group Reports
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The setting for The Souls of Black Folk
Music
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Authors Purpose / Technique
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A Collection of Fourteen Essays ( 9 were
originally written for publication in The
Atlantic Monthly). DuBois employed the device of
pairing Negro spirituals with European verse as
double epigraphs. By countering Byron, Tennyson
and Browning with sorrow songs, Du Bois made his
implication unmistakable
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Until the message of the songs sung in bondage by
black people was appreciated, the words written
in freedom by white people would remain hollow
and counterfeit.
He also used the metaphor of the Veil....as .we
are shut out from their world (white) by a vast
veil. This concept became a standard in
describing race relations for historians.
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The essays also include His own adolescent
discovery of prejudice The death of his son in
Atlanta His discovery in an Atlanta butcher shop
window The rift with BT Washington Cultural
pluralism and class struggles..the
manipulation of race in the service of wealth
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The personal nature, and logical positions taken
by the author help to insure the books
longevity. Indeed, much of what Du Bois speaks of
still haunts America even one hundred years
later, and his prediction of the color-line being
Americas greatest dilemma of the 20th century
was obviously true. -D. L. Lewis
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Literacy Connections
The text is scholarly and anthropological in
nature. Du Bois addresses his AUDIENCE directly
as "gentle reader" in an attempt to PERSUADE,
through DETAILS and ARGUMENT, to his POINT OF
VIEW. He also uses METAPHORS and music in his 14
ESSAYS in developing his THEME.
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• Additional Resources / Handouts
• Dittos for Adult Reader Discussion
• and Student Reader Discussion

• A 33 page Introduction to the text by David
  Levering Lewis

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ONE HUNDRED YEARS LATER AFTER PUBLICATION, THERE
IS IN THE ENTIRE BODY OF SOCIAL CRITICISM STILL
NO MORE THAN A HANDFUL OF MEDITATIONS ON THE
PROMISE AND FAILINGS OF DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA TO
RIVAL WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT DU BOISS
EXTAORDINARY COLLECTION OF FOURTEEN ESSAYS.-From
the Introduction by William Levering Lewis
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Now More Important Than Ever.Social Studies