Class Resources and Links

TeacherEase  - Use TeacherEase to check your current assignments and grades. You will need your TeacherEase username and password, provided to all students and their parents/guardians. Yes, the teacher's gradebook is a public document.

Watch Nigerian author Chiamanda Adichie deliver her stirring speech, "The Danger of a Single Story." This is the video in its entirety, of which we watched the first ten minutes in class.

Below: Geoffrey Canada, creator of the Harlem Children's Zone and author of Fist, Stick Knife, Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America. This is the excerpt we watched in class.

Click here to watch the  entire "60 Minutes" piece featuring Canada -  Canada on "60 Minutes"

This is the website for Geoffrey Canada's community-based organization, The Harlem Children's Zone. Click here to learn more about this organization's work. Harlem Children's Zone

Left: Wes Moore, author of The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates.  Click here to find out more information on his website.
The Other Wes Moore











Model for completing test corrections: Identify the incorrect answer choice, check the box that best describes the "thinking error," and then explain WHY the correct answer is the best choice.  See the example below.