For your reading Thursday (excerpt from Invisible Man for honors credit and “How It Feels To Be Colored Me” for CPA credit), choose two quotes from the text that you think are essential to understanding the writer’s style and point of view. Copy the quote down (with page number) then write about WHY it matters. Make sure that you put the quote in context, break it down for me as you understand it (look at language too) and how it connects to the whole.(one quote on each side of the index card)
Please watch the video clip posted as part of this introduction to the Beats. I want you to watch this 1) because it includes footage of the important Beat poets speaking and reading some of their poetry and 2) so you can get a better understanding of who they were, what they were trying to achieve and why they still matter today. As you watch, please take notes in your blue books, about this 2nd reason (better understanding...). Then, after we've spent a little more time on the poetry in class (but before Friday), write a one page entry about what you saw in the video, how it connects to what you are seeing and discussing about the poem your group is working on, and how it helps you to understand the Beats and their place in our culture. Due on Friday 3/7.