Battle Royal
Please be prepared to discuss how the elements of fiction reveal theme in "Battle Royal"
A Worn Path
Re-read A Worn Path, annotating for point of view, setting, and symbols. Given the discourse analysis questions about power from the previous class period, how do the constructs of power communicate expose conflicts to reveal character and theme?
Quiz
There will be a quiz of sorts on these two texts Friday/Tuesday
Song of Solomon - For 9/6a -9/7b
Read Foreward and Chapter 1
In a Dialectic Journal Answer:
Foreword
- Morrison talks about Muse in the
foreword. Based on her definition of a muse, do you think that a muse
exists or not? Support your answer.
- Talk about the significance of
father and daughter/son relationships.
Use what Morrison says about her father to help guide your answer.
- Write your thoughts of Toni
Morrison as a writer after reading the foreword. Use specific examples from the text to
explain your answers.
- Morrison gives a thorough analysis
of a sentence from Song of Solomon:
“The North Carolina Mutual Life
Insurance agent promised to fly
from Mercy to the other side of
Lake
Superior at 3:00.”
What does the analysis tell you about her
writings?
Chapter
1
- What’s the history of Not
Doctor Street?
- Write your thoughts about what
happened the day after Mr. Smith’s leap.
- Discuss the relationship between
Ruth and Macon.
- What are Ruth’s two pleasures? Why?
Watch: The People Could Fly
What do you think Morrison is telling us about Mr. Smith, the characters in the novel, and even society by using this folktale as the basis/context for Chapter 1?Here's a short, award winning film version of the folktale by Piotr Kajstura When They Could Fly
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