The works of American Ethnic Literature we are studying this quarter invite us to think and move in new ways; to look critically at dominant narratives of the nation, of capitalism, of systems of racial and gender and sexual hierarchy; and to imagine and potentially create other futures. 

Create a work of art in response to any of the texts we have read this quarter. 

Choose one of our course texts that you find especially compelling, and create your own work of art in response. It might be a written work, such as a series of poems (or one very long poem), a short story, a brief play or script, a creative “accompaniment” essay, or some other form we have not discussed together. Your writing might take on the style of the particular work to which you are responding, but it doesn’t have to. Or you may produce other, non-written forms of creative cultural work, such a drawing or painting, a short video or audio performance piece, a song, or anything else you choose. For instance, you might create an alternative “book cover” for one of our course texts (even one that isn’t a book, like a poem.) 

If you choose to create visual art or another non-written form, please include paragraphs of critical reflection about why you chose the form that you did and what the work means to you. 

1.Sula, by Toni Morrison, 

2.Citizen: An American Lyric, by Claudia Rankine

3. The Gangster We Are All Looking For, by lê thi diem thúy. 

part 2. 

Earlier in course, we learned about strategies and models for multiplying fractions. In the next session, we’ll also discuss dividing fractions. In preparation for that discussion, you’ll solve a few fraction division problems. 

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