Focus: Student-led discussion of Invisible Man, Chapters 15-18
1. DURING ANNOUNCEMENTS, PLEASE WRITE ON THE BACK OF YOUR READING TICKET WHAT BURNING QUESTIONS ABOUT INVISIBLE MAN YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE ANSWERED BY THE CLASS TODAY...WHICH SCENES ARE TRULY CONFUSING? THESE CAN BE FROM ANY CHAPTER.
2. Reading ticket / burning question musical chairs
3. Socratic seminar: Invisible Man, Chapters 15-18
HW: Read Chapters 19 and 20 with a simple reading ticket of 10 one-liners; work on poetry project/paper (feel free to email me outlines, thesis statements, and/or drafts); essay revisions.
Invisible Man 15-18 Socratic
ReplyDeleteI is invisible on the title
335-337 Between the hole, dark and depth less water He lives in a hole connection?
Construction - he doesn't get to complete anything he sets out to do.
maybe he doesn't have one identity, he doesn't know who he actually is.
337 My mind flowed - stream of consciousness writing, compared to meta-cognitive, dedicating writing to honesty of mind.
Scene leaving Mary's house, banging statue thing, cock roaches, thought it was a dream
319 connect back to coins on floor
someone calls him a sambo statue like a Sambo he is embarrassed when Mary is coming to his room.
Has he forgotten the southern dynamic?
Has he lost sight of the Southern character?
Is narrator a sambo?
He realizes he can be a sambo in the north.
Brotherhood dissmisses him from Harlem.
He keeps getting used by all the groups.
Feed me - he is being fed false information
326 roaches scene
sweeps roaches and coins into waste saying coins turn into roaches.
anytime he is offered any value we should be suspicious.
Knocking 326 some folks just live in filth.
Knocking starts when he is about to join brotherhood
shaking foundation of society
Mary - mammy stereotype
He keeps trying to get rid of stereotypical ideas, but people do not let him.
golden Day reference
Is he easily influenced?
He does whatever he is told.
he lets others think for him.
He doesn't know what to think.
Bledsoe, Rhestrum, touching chain.
Is narrator becoming Bledsoe?
Is he obsessed with power?
Is he cheating the system?
Was Brockway that important to the paint?
Is the narrator that important to the movement?
229 - paint explosion scene
Brockway gerts away
Bledsoe works for whites and undermines his own race.
Speech - Is he affective in advancing his race?
He appears to be going somewhere, but nothing changes.
Did speech put blacks together?
most blacks causing controversy between themselves.
Battle royal - all fighting blindly
369 - Ras the Exhorter
Fight was moving back into the dark, could not tell ours from theirs.