Jan. 5, 2020

  In-Class Questions:

1.     Reread the second paragraph. How would you describe the neighborhood that the narrator lives in?

2.     Describe the neighborhood that the narrator wanders into.

3.     How does he feel in this new neighborhood? Give a quote to prove his emotion. 

4.     How did the cop feel in this neighborhood? Give a quote to prove his emotion. 

5.     Describe the cop’s actions in one word.

6.     What do we know about the narrator? List as many identifiers as you can (like we did in the opening activity).

7.     Does the author give more information about the people or the setting? Why is this important?

8.     Return to the first sentence: what is the first word of the story, and why is this important to the narrative? 

Links for Exploration:

Andrew Smyrna (2020): https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/man-dies-in-trooper-involved-shooting-in-atlantas-edgewood-neighborhood 

Vincent Truitt (2020): https://www.cbs46.com/news/demands-grow-louder-for-transparency-in-the-fatal-police-shooting-of-17-year-old/article_fed46da6-18cc-11eb-be38-8b3f8f2258d3.html 

Jacob Matthew Dau (2020): https://www.ourquadcities.com/news/local-news/one-shot-dead-during-police-pursuit/ 

Anthony McClain (2020): https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-11/pasadena-police-chief-confirms-identity-of-officer-who-fatally-shot-anthony-mcclain

Austin Eaglechief (2019): https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/austin-eaglechief-death-inquest-what-you-should-know-and-what-his-family-is-seeking-1.5251425

David Lacour (2014): https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/sq-officer-on-trial-for-manslaughter-death-of-teenager-1.3336662 

Michael Brown (2014): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/10/police-fatal-shooting-black-teenager-angry-crowd-st-louis-suburb

 Ricardo Diaz-Zeferino (2013): https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/16/us/video-of-2013-police-shooting-of-unarmed-man-renews-familiar-questions.html 

Ramarly Graham (2012): https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/14/nyregion/officer-pleads-not-guilty-in-ramarley-graham-shooting.html

Mark Duggan (2011): https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/u-k-father-was-lawfully-killed-in-2011-police-shooting-inquest-finds-1.1629032