Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Reflective writing

Today we watched clips from Ken Burns's documentary Baseball.  You can find it on Netflix (if you have an account).  We watched Inning Five (25:00-34:59, 40:52-43:54, 1:56:59-2:00:29).  You are to create a document in your English 9 folder called "[Yourname] Writing Samples"

In the document, put today's date, skip a line, and then answer the writing prompts below. 
Because this is personal and reflective writing, you MAY use first person pronouns ("I," "we," etc.).

The video implies that American attitudes toward race during the early 20th century were...
[Finish the thesis and explain in 1-3 paragraphs]

What effect did players like Josh and Satchel have on American views of race? Did they change or reinforce ideas/stereotypes?

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