Monday, March 24, 2014

Homework for week of 3/24

Monday: Read and annotate Beloved through page 235.
Tuesday: Read and annotate  Beloved 236-255. As you read, make a note of point of view and syntax. As always, mark confusion and connections or ideas.
Block day: Finish Book Two (through page 277).  Review your annotations from earlier in novel. Are there questions you can now answer? Are there thoughts that have expanded? How? How has the motif you have followed appeared in Book Two?

Monday: Read and annotate beginning of Book Three, through page 309.
Novel will be finished by Friday, 4/4. Block day will consist of in-class writing.

Summative assessment for Beloved:
Examine a claim Morrison makes in Beloved about one of the following topics and how it relates to contemporary American society:
1. The legacy of slavery
2. The idea of collective memory in a society
3. The ways in which race and gender interconnect


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