SUBJECT MATTER RUBRIC: Language Arts

Read Black Boy

Level 2	Keep an on-going dialectical journal with entries at least twice a week
Level 3 = L2+	Write an interpretive essay, in which you discuss the role of food and/or nutrition in the life of Richard Wright.
Level 4 = L3+	Identify a controversy or conflict addressed in Black Boy, then EITHER write an essay defining the controversy, presenting both sides of the argument . OR write a creative work in which you place Richard Wright in a different time or place showing how he responds to that situation
Honors	Write out a typical day's menu for Richard during some time period in Part 2 of Black Boy. Then EITHER analyze that menu for its nutritional content and evaluate it for Richard's health OR eat the food listed in that menu for at least 3 days and report on what it felt like to do that.

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