3.)Also, here’s the link to the Store’s website where all of you students can view your booklist: https://store.wlu.edu/CourseMaterials
4.)Don’t forget to read Val Smith’s article about FOUR LITTLE GIRLS before coming to class tomorrow. You should have a hardcopy of that new article (I handed it to you at the end of class). Let me know if you didn’t get your hardcopy.
5.)The following are your assignments for the trial tomorrow. You can feel free to contact your trial teammates online or via cell phone if you’d like. Remember that your judges will be evaluating the ways in which you do the following six things – a)use the 8 WordPress blog posts and lots of comments on those posts from your classmates….b)use Rita Dove poetry (3 different poems)……c)use very specific evidence from both films….d)use opening and closing statements that are bold, clear, and provocative…..e)use key terms discussed in class or in the two critical articles…. and f)use the arguments in the two critical articles (you can use the articles even if you want to argue against what the author says in one or both of them! that’d be fine!)….
TWO TRIALS FOR TOMORROW
~Group A in the library = Allie, Julie, Imani, Jill, Brandon, and J’Mari will prep together for Trials One and Two
~Group B in our Washington Hall classroom = Chris, Jake, Ayanna, Amara, Bridget, and Landen will prep together for Trials One and Two
~Judges in lobby of Washington Hall = Gracie, Bailey, Caroline, and Juliette will prep together for Trials One and Two
Trial One
Group A: Chris McNair serves as a double for filmmaker Spike Lee. We can offer proof.
Group B: Chris McNair does not serve as a double for Director Spike Lee (instead, he is something else very specific – fill in that blank here). We can offer proof.
Trial Two
Group A: The ending of Clark Johnson’s film BOYCOTT is more compelling and useful than is the ending of Spike Lee’s film FOUR LITTLE GIRLS (Spike Lee’s film is not redemptive, but instead something else – fill in that blank here!!).
Group B: The ending of Spike Lee’s FOUR LITTLE GIRLS (which is indeed redemptive!) is more compelling and useful than is the ending of Clark Johnson’s BOYCOTT.
Climbing In (by: Rita Dove)
Teeth.
Metallic. Lie-gapped.
Not a friendly shine
like the dime
cutting my palm
as I clutch the silver pole
to step up, up
(sweat gliding the dear lady’s
cheek) – these are big teeth,
teeth of the wolf
under Grandmother’s cap.
Not quite a grin.
Pay him to keep smiling
as the bright lady tumbles
head over tail
down the clinking gullet