Professor Sabir's Posse

Tuesday in class (8-9 a.m.) we read Chapter 2 in Holler. We skimmed the text: making predictions and looking at certain grammatical forms like parallel construction. For homework students were the continue reading the chapter and develop a reading log by the next meeting. The log was to include vocabulary, as well as questions related to references the reader might not understand such as "James Baldwin, Sonia Sanchez, Rev. Al Sharpton, Geronimo Pratt, Malcolm X's statement: "...by any means necessary."). When we looked at certain historical references, we learned that one student had family members who were members of the Black Panther Party.

We also spoke about my trip to the Student Success conference last week and a reading program used at Laney.