Hyper-Homeroom of Mr. Holmes

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Summer, 2013 - Reading List

Street Love by Walter Dean Myers
Scorpions by Walter Dean Myers
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
From the Barrio to the Board Room
or Mi Barrio (the comic book version) by Robert Renteria
American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Code Talker: The Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac
Freedom Riders by Raymond Arsenault
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco
Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Spring, 2013

"There are some things, as Black men, we can only do for ourselves."

"We know that too many young men in our community continue to make bad choices. Growing up, I made a few myself. And I have to confess, sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world trying to keep a Black man down . . ."

". . . If we’re being honest with ourselves, too few of our brothers and sisters have the opportunities you’ve had here at Morehouse. In troubled neighborhoods all across the country – many of them heavily African American – too few of our citizens have role models to guide them."

— President Obama, May, 2013 - Morehouse College Commencement Speech