Homework for week of February 24

Our work this week will focus on your literary research paper (at home) and begin our reading for Beloved by Toni Morrison. Beloved won the Pulitzer Prize (the highest honor for fiction) and Morrison won the Nobel Prize for literature five years later. Only seven other authors have won both prizes. She is a master of craft, but also pushes boundaries of content, exploring the ways in which the trauma and dehumanization of slavery echoes in individual and collective lives. I think you'll expand your thinking through our reading and conversations. This week, we'll write and read two essays as a way to begin this conversation. Here is the homework:

Monday: Work on your third literary research assignment. See details on last week's blog, both in terms of assignment and exemplars. Due Friday.
Tuesday: Ask someone to tell the story you wrote in class today. Either write down the version or ask them to write the story. Bring to class on block day.
Block day: Finish Emily Bernard essay and annotate, noting what you see as the central struggle AND your reactions to the events and perceptions of the writer. We'll discuss on Friday.
Literary research assignment due Friday.
Friday: Finish independent reading letter, if you haven't completed one yet.

Work for week of February 10

Monday: Continue reading for 2.5 hours. Check-in for those pages will happen on Friday.
Tuesday: Here is the link to the OWL overview of Critical Theory:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/722/1/
Work on your three points for your presentation of the critical theory. You should include:
2-4 sentence overview of your theory
Questions that a theorist from your camp may ask when looking at a text from this perspective.
Your analysis of "Reunion" in light of your theory.

Block day: Complete your reading!
Over vacation: Complete your author/literary research text for Monday. Lit chart and thread work due on Friday, February 28.