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Required Text: The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
For the required text, The Invisible Man, please take notes on important plot points, character development, and most impactful quotes. These must be handwritten notes (minimum of 2 notes per chapter). The notes will be assessed on both the accuracy of the content and the importance of the details selected.
A writing prompt asking about the themes of the assigned reading will be given in class once Chromebooks are dispersed. Further conversations around this concept and its application to the books will be had in class.
“Introduction to Poetry” packet- 20 hand-written notes and definitions: Introduction to Poetry
Invisible Man is one of those rare novels that have changed the shape of American literature. For not only does Ralph Ellison's nightmare journey across the racial divide tell unparalleled truths about the nature of bigotry and its effects on the minds of both victims and perpetrators, it gives us an entirely new model of what a novel can be.
As he journeys from the Deep South to the streets and basements of Harlem, from a horrifying "battle royal" where black men are reduced to fighting animals, to a Communist rally where they are elevated to the status of trophies, Ralph Ellison's nameless protagonist ushers readers into a parallel universe that throws our own into harsh and even hilarious relief. Suspenseful and sardonic, narrated in a voice that takes in the symphonic range of the American language, black and white, Invisible Man is one of the most audacious and dazzling novels of our century.
~ Good Reads
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