Today, we began class by getting our Final Exam Portfolio. Students are not required to begin work on this prior to next week, when we will have all class time devoted to that work. However, they may wish to begin organizing their materials.
We then launched into the final section of our discussion of race, civil rights, and the Constitution by bringing the discussion into the present day. Author Ta-Nehisi Coates (recent winner of the National Book Award for his book Between the World and Me), offered an argument in 2014 for an examination of the issue of reparations. We will use his Atlantic Monthly article The Case for Reparations as the basis for our work this week. Each evening, students will read and annotate sections of the article and complete questions in this worksheet. The worksheet will be submitted to turnitin.com, and a final reflection on the Coates piece will figure in their Civil Rights Portfolio, which is due on Monday, January 11th.
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