Greetings Scholars, Today please meet me in Zoom at 9:30 a.m or 1 p.m. depending on your class schedule. The link is in Blackboard. Here is a link to a condensed version of our syllabus requirements: Syllabus Slideshow. We will discuss this in class. Here is a rough guide to our activities today: Tuesday, 06 July Introductions Review and critique syllabus Familiarize with Vocabulary builder and Blackboard Discussion Board posts Read Amanda Gorman’s The Hill We Climb Start vocabulary builder together using the Gorman poem breakout rooms to choose new vocabulary words break Discuss vocabulary words and poetic devices discuss ad assignment, …

Greetings Scholars! Over the next three weeks, we will be readings and discussing texts by writers including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sherman Alexie, James Baldwin, Franz Kafka, Plato, and Zadie Smith. I hope you love them as much as I do! Be ready to share your voices, your analyses, your creativity, and your point of view. I’m looking forward to meeting you!