Beckett Life Center
Mon, 10/9/17, Wed, 10/11/17
Week #1
We started at Beckett. Mondays are the older group, grades 3-6. Wednesdays are the younger ones, k-2. Our starting ritual is a contribution to the James Baldwin mural near the entrance of the building. First, students sign-in. Then they take a pencil and black piece of material and go up to James Baldwin’s
Letter To My Nephew posted on the wall of our classroom. They find a word, cross it out and write it on their black card. After saying why we chose our word and using it in a sentence, we line up and go to the mural, where we add our black word to the designated black area of the mural. Over the course of the year, students will fill in this space with the words of James Baldwin and complete the mural image.
