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Hi Everyone,

I hope that you are doing well as we slowly approach the final chapters of the semester.

This week we are covering two perspectives and splitting the class into two groups again. Except that there is no assessment, …

Hi Everyone,

Please review this week’s materials and take quiz 5 on Blackboard. Also, post your research essay outline by the end of this week’s unit (Tuesday night) under Converation/ Peer Review on the OpenLab so that your classmates can …

For Post 6, I asked you to describe one identity you have that you are most proud of or one identity that you either are not proud of, or struggle with. Here I copied your replies/ the first few lines …

Hi Everyone, and welcome to week 10. We will explore the Black/ African-American perspective. There are a few readings, and a link to several literacy tests which were administered to Black voters in the 1960s, to determine their eligibility to …

Hi Everyone,

First of all, thank you soooooo much for posting your videos on Flip! I so enjoyed seeing your faces and hearing your voices–it felt like being in class together, in some way, didn’t it? I also loved learning …

Dear All,

You are halfway there: this is the mid-point in the semester, and before you know it the semester will be over. Take a deep breath, and keep on going.

All the midterm week assignments are due by tonight–Flip, …

Thank you for the powerful post 5. I especially enjoyed the wide range of resources about the Middle East that you shared with us.

A few of you seemed to have skipped posting altogether–and yes, your lowest Discussion Board grade …

Please watch this brief video for an overview of this week’s assignments:

Also, if you are missing any assignments from weeks 1-7, this is your last chance to submit them–I will only accept late work from the first half of

Hi Everyone-

Do you prefer our Conversation posts on the OpenLab or quizzes, like quiz 2, on Blackboard? Let me know if you can. The big difference, of course, is that I’m the only one who can see your work …

Dear Students,

I have enjoyed reading all the literacy narratives. Thank you for sharing a piece of your story with me. Some of you wrote about your journey of learning to read as a child, and some of you wrote …