THE (T)RAW MODEL:
Les Blancs Introduction
(TRANSORM!)
Resistance, Accommodation, Withdrawal
Agenda:
 1. RAP
 2. Elbow Partner Sharing.
 3. Corner Activity and Discussion of (T)RAW
 4. (T)RAW Power Point)
 5. Intro Mindwrites
 6. Read Lorraine Hansberry Bio
 7. Intro Active Reading: Actively read bio
 8. Intro Les Blancs by Lorraine Hansberry, Waves of
Imperialism, Colonial Mindset, “White Man’s Burden” (If time)
Common Core Standards:
Covering Today…
 Participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations
with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own
clearly and persuasively.
 Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and
formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what
the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text
 Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a
work of literature from outside/inside the United States, drawing on a
wide reading of world literature
 Engage and orient the reader by setting out a problem, situation, or
observation, establishing one or multiple point(s) of view, and introducing
a narrator and/or characters; create a smooth progression of
experiences or events
 Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions
(one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on
grades 9-10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and
expressing their own clearly and persuasively
 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary
source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas
develop over the course of the text.
R.A.P. Journal Question
Review and Preview (rap)
Here is a dilemma. Someone is trying to hurt,
dominate or oppress you due to either your race,
class, gender, sexual identity, religion and/or age
(or they are just trying to bully you).
 What do you do?
 Do you (1) resist and fight back passively/actively,
(2) accommodate them and just go along, (3)
withdrawal or get out of the situation either
physically or mentally, or (4) try to change or
transform them, the situation, others and/or yourself?
 Why do you do what you do and react that way?
 How does it make you feel to respond that way?
DOMINATION/SUBORDINATION?
 Domination: the exercise of control or influence
over someone or something, or the state of being
so controlled
 Subordination: inferiority, subjection,
subservience
Autonomy
 Autonomy: freedom from external control or
influence; independence
What we all face…
We want to define and control our
own lives and we all want others to
likewise have that freedom of
autonomy; free from domination!
Self determination! I determine
who I am and want to be!
THE POWER CONTINUUM
On the line of power we go from total
domination (Powerless Victim/Slave) to total
freedom (SelfDetermination/Powerful/Agent). We are
hardly ever totally one way or the other. We
constantly move on this line.
DOMINATION------<-----------SUBORDINATION
POWERLESS-------<---------SELF DETERMINED
THE BIG QUESTION…?
So what happens when one
group/person directly or indirectly
subverts, or power-overs, the
independence of another
group/person?
…They RESIST,
ACCOMMODATE,
WITHDRAWAL and/or
TRANSFORM
How does this work?
 As groups move on the common continuum due
to the first proximity and then deeper levels of
interaction, the less powerful group, fearing
domination, attempts to preserve their unity and
integrity by defending their society and lifestyle…
 The goal is to maintain their “cultural life” or
autonomy and thus thwart/undermine the
attempts of domination or total control over
them…
Resistance!
 Resistance: the refusal to accept or comply with
something; the attempt to prevent something by
action or argument
 Active Resistance: open warfare
 Passive Resistance: poisoning food while acting
friendly
Accommodation
 Full Assimilation: learn the rules of the dominator
 Bi-cultural Assimilation: be part of the rules of the
dominate while practicing your own beliefs in
private
 Pluralism: practicing autonomy in dominate
culture
Withdrawal…
 Physical: you leave or removed from situation
 Emotional/Psychological: “drop out” or
drugs/alcohol
TRANSFORM!
make a thorough or
dramatic change in the
form, appearance, or
character of a people,
culture or nation (very
rare person)
We will focus on Lorraine Hansberry as someone that
transforms and writes about (T)RAW. We will read her play,
Les Blancs and study the waves of imperialism, the colonial
mindset, and read “The White Man’s Burden” using the
strategies and tools of composition, character analysis or
Mindwrites while Actively Reading.
ACTIVE READING: Hansberry
 Use a Blue Pen or Underline: To identify and clarify
main ideas
 - Single out key phrases that seem to be the main
ideas the author wants to get across.
 - Summarize these main ideas in the margin, using your
own words.
 Use a Red Pen or Circle: To identify and clarify key
vocabulary terms and all unfamiliar terms
 - Single out key vocabulary terms
 - Single out at least two unfamiliar vocabulary terms
(there is always unfamiliar vocabulary).
 - Define all the terms in the margin.
 Use a Black Pen or an Asterisk (*): To connect,
evaluate, and synthesize main ideas
 - Briefly note connections you have made in the
margin.
 - Briefly note questions, examples, counter-examples,
counter-arguments or new ideas in the margin.
MINDWRITE: Hansberry
 Who are they? What is their rank; if any? Who do they associate with
(other characters)? Where do they live?
 Thoughts- What do they think about?
 Actions- What do they do?
 Personality Traits- How do they act? What is their attitude towards
things, events, people etc?
 Physical Traits- What do they look like? (if no picture, then use your
imagination)
 Motivations- Why do they do what they do?
 Impact- How have they created change and/or influenced others?
What is their legacy?
 POV- What would the other characters say about the character?
 Quotes- Important & relevant things the character said.
 Thematic- How do these characters demonstrate the themes
Thank you! The End…
 Or is it just the beginning?