Monday, November 3, 2014

Essays/Quiz Bluest Eye Week of 11/3-11/7

AGENDA:

Quiz on The Bluest Eye

READ AND DISCUSS: Essays from last week

Tuesday: Read, annotate and discuss Gloria Naylor's "The Meanings of a Word" and Dick Gregory's "Shame"

Wednesday: Read, annotate and discuss Toni Morrison's "Nobel Lecture" and Faulkner's "Nobel Speech"
EQ: What do these speeches argue is the role of language and writing?
HMWK: Read to pg. 40 in As I Lay Dying
Link to Toni Morrison's speech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ticXzFEpN9o 

Faulkner's speech:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENIj5oNtapw


Thursday: Finish discussion of Morrison's speech
Review the characters and action in As I Lay Dying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZMy7TOf6XA

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