Week 9
2/26
Independent reading day
2/28
Twerk Day
3/1
Song Talks
PowerPoint: Analyzing Film III (editing)
Week 10
3/4
Independent reading day
3/6
Screen/Live Tweet Behn Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
Discuss Beasts
3/8
Screen/Live Tweet Behn Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
Discuss Beasts
[Q4]
Week 11
3/11-3/15
Spring Break (no class)
Week 12
3/18
Independent reading day
Receive PechaKucha 20×20 Presentation assignment
3/20
This American Life: “We Are the Future” podcast on Afrofuturism. Listen to “Metropolis Now” and “Past Imperfect”
Read Henry Dumas’ “Outer Space Blues” and “Ark of Bones.” CW: n-word.
3/22
Discuss “Outer Space Blues” and “Ark of Bones”
Read Nnedi Okorafor’s “Spider the Artist.” CW: strong language, violence, domestic violence, suicidal ideation.
Week 13
3/25 (🧱day)
Discuss “Spider the Artist”
In-class revision day (in-class assignment here)
3/27
PechaKucha 20×20 Presentations
[extra time TBD]
3/29
Parent/Teacher Conferences (no class)
Language & Literature III 