Monday, October 5th

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Monday, October 5th

• Good morning ladies and gentleman, and a happy
  Music Monday to you (more on that later)
• Please get back into your groups from Friday. You
  will have ten minutes to complete your pyramid
  and to develop your theme.

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Todays EUs

• Many stories, from childrens stories and fairy
  tales to short stories and novels, follow a very
  standard plot outline.
• Most stories have a theme, the moral, message or
  lesson about life that the reader wants the
  reader to learn.

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Todays EQs

• How are the elements of plot seen in The War of
  the Wall?
• How does the theme of our story connect with the
  theme of our unit?
• Who were those people painted on the wall?

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By the end of class today, you should be able to
say to yourself

• I have a better understanding of the elements of
  plot and how they are seen in The War of the
  Wall, as seen through the class completion of
  the plot chart
• The War of the Wall is more relevant to me
  because I was introduced to some background
  information on the people involved
• I can identify the theme of The War of the
  Wall, and I see how it connects to the theme of
  our unit
• Music Mondays are awesome

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The War of the Wall

• Toni Cade Bambara(1939-1995)Writers are
  everyday people who write stories that come out
  of their own neighborhoods

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Music Mondays

• During the playing of the following song, I want
  you to think about how the song makes you feel.
  At the end of the song, you will record those
  feelings in your notebookbe prepared to share
  with the class ?

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Martin Luther King, Jr.
I recognized some of the faces right off. There
was Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Malcolm X
And there was a man with glasses on and his mouth
open like he was laying down a heavy rap. Daddy
came up alongside and reminded us that that was
Minister Malcolm X.
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Harriet Tubman
The serious woman with a rifle I knew was Harriet
Tubman because my grandmama has pictures of her
all over the house.
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Fannie Lou Hamer
And I knew Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer cause a signed
photograph of her hangs in the restaurant next to
the calendar.
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Louis Armstrong
Then I let my eyes follow what looked like a
vine. It trailed past a man with a horn,
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Billie Holiday
a woman with a big white flower in her hair,
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Duke Ellington
a handsome dude in a tuxedo seated at a piano,
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W.E.B. DuBois
and a man with a goatee holding a book.
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Closure

• After learning the time period in which this song
  was created, and about the person who created it,
  why do you think Louis Armstrong made this song?
  What message was he trying to send?