Week of April 26th

No Blog homework, BUT you must bring in a portion of your rough draft for me to look at on Wednesday. If you come to class with it, you get an A. If you don't come to class with part of your rough draft, you get an F. Very simple.

Also, Make sure you have a completed rough draft for the peer edit on Friday 4/30!!! Again, if you show up with it you get an A for a quiz grade, if you don't have it or dont show up to class, you will receive an F for a quiz grade and also lose 5 points off of your final paper grade.


**Be prepared to discuss the stories on Monday and be prepared for a quiz on Wednesday**

Wright's " A Man Who was almost a Man"

NO Homework for this week. With that said, please be prepared to discuss the story on Wednesday and Friday. Your participation this week will be counted towards a HW assignment. Come to class prepared with connection to your life and/or other stories that we have read.


Please work on your rewrites. THEY ARE DUE WEDNESDAY.

Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery"

Think about the exercise we did in class on Friday about paying attention to reoccuring images/symbols. I also asked that you think about the idea of "mob mentality" and what that means (think about "Blood-Burning Moon," the video "without Sanctuary" and "lynching in Tennessee")to individuals and society as a whole.

Choose 1 question to answer. Please make sure your response is at least a page and uses examples and your anaylsis to prove your thoughts.

1.) Discuss the degree to which the tradition of the lottery has been kept. why does no one want to make a new box? Why is the whole institution not abandoned?

2.)Does the rhyme "Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon" adequately explain the institution of the lottery? What other reasons might people have for such behavior? What is the social function of a scapegoat?

3.) On your first reading, when did you begin to suspect what happens at the end of the story? How soon might it become evident? What are the most important hints?

Diaz's "How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl and Halfie" & Toomer's "Blood-burning Moon"

**Remember that the final draft of Paper 2 MUST be handed in, IN PERSON, NO LATER than 9 AM, Monday April 5th. Please include all of your rough drafts, free-writes and peer review sheets!****


Diaz's "How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl and Halfie" & Toomer's "Blood-burning Moon"

Think about the ideas of race and identity in the two stories. Please answer the following questions. (the answers should be long enough to fully develop your ideas!)

1.) Skin color is always a crucial element in any story of racial conflict. How does Toomer describe Louisa's skin color? How would we interpret that description?

2.) What are the cultural differences in the expectations of a “Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie?" How do their different expectations cause the narrator to treat them differently on the date?


Have a good weekend!