Lesson Plan for Week 5: General Thoughts and Notes

Patrick Mooney, TA
Department of English, UC Santa Barbara
Eng 133SO, Prof. Waid
30 April 2014  

Major topics:

  1. Thought for the day:

    For example, I live in the North now. So the first question come to mind is North of what? Why, north of the South. So North exists because South does. But does that mean North is different from South? No way! South is just south of North.

    — Guitar Bains in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, ch. 5

  2. Administrative Issues:
  3. Questions for discussion:
    1. Picking any two authors of short stories that we've read so far, describe how you can identify their writing styles if presented with a passage they wrote for identification on the midterm.
    2. Choose one of the three anaphoric sections in Richard Wright's Black Boy (pp. 7-9, ch. 1; pp. 45-46, several pages into ch. 2; pp. 71-72, not quite at the end of ch. 2). What common elements recur, with or without variations, in the section you chose? What effect does the use of anaphora have on you as a reader and on your reading practices for these sections? How are these sections related structurally to the text in which they occur?
    3. In Chesnutt's Dave's Neckliss, why is Dave's punishment structured in exactly the way that it is? Why does the punishment affect Dave in the way that it does? Is his death a suicide?