Prose

Today we spent time planning several essays.
Students were also given a notebook assignment for Invisible Man.

Students received the following handout:

Keep a notebook that contains analysis of each of the following examples. You may add others that you encounter.

Prologue
“What did I do to be so Black and Blue”
1369 light bulbs

Chapter 1
Briefcase
Brass tokens
Tattoo

Chapter 2
Founder’s statue
Red-tin apple
Log cabins

Chapter 3
Golden Day
Mechanical man
Mr. Norton’s illness

Chapter 4
White dividing line
Mr. Norton’s car

Chapter 5
Baptist church

Chapter 6
Leg shackle
Bledsoe’s fingers
Sealed envelopes

Chapter 7
Jim Crow

Chapter 8
Statue of Liberty

Chapter 9
Breakfast
Artifacts from college

Chapter 10
Optic White
Lucius Brockway


Students are to read through chapter 10 by Monday. Also, students are to add an analysis of the excerpt they received from Self-Reliance in regards to how it relates to IM's conversation with Mr. Norton.