Preparing for the Mid Term Exam

Over the next couple of weeks we will focus on preparing for the Mid Term Exam by reading the following texts in-class.

  • Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
  • Mister Mandela (Lee Maracle)
  • The Negro Speaks of Rivers (Langston Hughes)
  • One Good Man (Sherman Alexie)
  • Blues Singer (Duncan Mercredi)
  • Potlatch as Pedagogy: Learning Through Ceremony (Sara Florence Davidson and Robert Davidson)
  • The Laundry Basket (Lee Maracle)
  • Haida Gwaii (Thomas King)
  • Passing (Nella Larson)
  • The Gilded Six-Bits (Zora Neale Hurston
  • Sweat (Zora Neale Hurston)
  • Thank You, M’am (Langston Hughes)

We will also learn about:

  • Literary devices (Quiz 4)
  • Literary elements (Quiz 4)
  • Constructive thinking tools (Quiz 4)
  • The Harlem Renaissance
  • The English Renaissance
  • Life and times of Shakespeare (All Is True – Quiz 4)

Mr. Kertes is a Language Arts teacher in Prince Rupert, in the territory of the Ts’msyen, at Charles Hays Secondary School - home of the Rainmakers.

Tom Kertes Resume and CV

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