Analysis: Melinda's Two Lives

Students began class by responding to the following Journal Response prompt in their Composition notebooks:

•Journal Response: Open your books to page 5. Number your papers from 1-10.

Examine the “FIRST TEN LIES” section.

•Which of these do you feel are lies that apply to the MLK high school experience? Do any of them not apply?

•Are there any “lies” you feel like you have been told about HS, that you would add to the list? Add them, and clarify why they are false.

After some shared responses, mild discussion, and more than a little venting, we bent our gaze in the direction of Melinda, and Speak. We examined Melinda's life, and the quality thereof, in two spheres: School Life, and Home Life.

Students were given this guide-document (School/Home Life), and asked to complete it. This included quotes from the book to support students' perceptions of her life.


HW: To complete the document from class (see link above), and also read the book to pg. 26, stopping at the section headed "DEVILS DESTROY".