How Others See Us vs How We Really Are

Copy the template below. Record your name and period and answer each of the four questions in a google doc, then paste your response as a comment to this post.

Name:

Period:

Imagine a stranger that you might see at a bus or subway station. Just by looking at you, what might that person think they know about you? What assumptions would they have?

How right or wrong would they be about you? How would you want them to think of you?

What do other students at Freire think they know about you?

What would you like your classmates to know about you that they may not already know?

School Segregation Article and Response

Today in a couple of English IV classes we began a fascinating discussion on what segregation in schools looks like today.

I found an article that gives a lot of background on the subject

For extra credit, read the article and respond with a comment stating your name and class period, what you learned, how segregation today is different from before Brown vs. the Board of Education, how it is the same, and your reaction to the article