I don’t have a fancy lesson I delivered about the #SuperBowlHalftimeShow Before I showed it, I instructed my students to write down three words and document when they noticed them:
•imagery
•symbolism
•message
We watched once all the way through, then we broke down where my students noted. +
•imagery
•symbolism
•message
We watched once all the way through, then we broke down where my students noted. +
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Brilliant bits of analysis.
High school sophomores-seniors taking a dual credit composition class
This is a high compliment. Thank you 💜
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social - The children SEE YOU!
We also talk about how this image is the ideal: above and alone and in the spotlight. But it’s not sustainable. +
Black men make America/make America look good/make America great (again) +
Respectability politics trickles down through generations.
“But it doesn’t matter, because our kids disappear anyway. The same bodies that made the flag are laying on the ground dead. It didn’t matter.” +
Why was I in my school today and not posted up in Ms. Bond’s work-crib?!!!!
“Black women have an ornamental role here.”
“America is more concerned with keeping a false peace than justice.”
“If you want a revolution, don’t watch the Superbowl!”
“There is no winning the Game of America. It has to end.”