Invisible Man

Students are to read through chapter 9 for Monday.

Essay

Pd 3. Students discussed Invisible Man.
Pd 6. Students completed a poetry essay today.

Invisible Man

Students are to read chapters 4 & 5 by Thursday. Continue working on journals for each reading assignment.

Invisible Man

Students are to read through chapter 3 by Monday.

The students completed an essay today.

Invisible Man

Students received copies of Invisible Man and analyzed the first 3 paragraphs. Students are to read the prologue and chapter 1 by Friday. They must also keep a notebook to record the following information:

Keep a notebook that contains analysis of each of the following examples. You may add others that you encounter. Also make note of how many times the color white appears in the novel and provide a brief analysis for each description.

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 finish reading Portrait and complete the following questions:

The last section is a lot like the first section. It is a confluence of all the threads and all the development used so far. Have patience with it.

Answer the following questions fully.
1. Why do you suppose Stephen is so fascinated with Cranly's parents?
Is Stephen the product of exhausted loins?
Explain.
2. Why does Emma have such a prominent role in the notes?
3. Why would he come back to religion, according to his mother?
Do you agree with her?
Explain.
4. Whose is the race of clodhoppers?
Where in the notes does he contradict this thought?
5. Interpret Stephen's dream.
6. What is the answer to Cranly's riddle?
7. Why does Simon Daedalus like Davin so much?
8. Tara is an Irish heaven, Holyhead is an Irish port.
What is the meaning of Steven's line?
9. Note the bogwater line. Who are the apple blossoms and what is the pond water?
10. Why does Stephen fear the red eyed old man?
What does he stand for?
11. Why does Emma like Stephen all of a sudden?
12. Where does the bird imagery come in again?
13. What does his mother wish for him?
What does he wish for himself?
14. Why, if he is forging the uncreated conscience of his race, is he encountering the reality of experience for the millionth time?
15. How are we to take the last line?
Explain its presence.

Portrait

Students are to read to the break on page 235 by Wednesday. I would also like for students to explain Stephen's philosophy of aesthetics in no more than 1 concise paragraph, and explain the significance of each encounter he has with his peers, relating the significance of his discussions to his growth as an individual.

The book is to be finished by Friday.

Portrait/Richard III

Pd 3-Part III of Portrait is due Monday 3/5. Rewrites of Richard III essays are due Monday 3/5. Students completed an in-class essay on Wednesday.

Pd 6-Part III of Portrait is due Tuesday 3/6. Rewrites of Richard III essays are due Monday 3/5. Students completed and in-class essay today.