AP Major Works Data Sheets

Now that you have a handle of the novel (I hope) and are working on your videos presentations (I mean it's not that difficult to curate a 5 minute collaborative film) you will need to begin reviewing the works you've read.

 To simplify the activity, which you will do in class, I've created a Livebinder for review.AP LIT REVIEW There are examples of two Major works Data Sheets, a blank template, and video recaps. I'll put up our Hamlet close readings later in the week.

As we've read Hamlet, Gatsby, Heart of Darkness, Things Fall Apart, Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, these are the works for which you are responsible. Similarly, as I've posted  two major works you are, at the very least, responsible for the other four (4). You can type on the template, write/type note cards, write on the template, or even create digital notecards, glogsters, perhaps even prezi (but be careful of plagiarizing a prezi) - The choice is yours.

If you've read more works than this please feel free to create more Major Works cards - you will be amply rewarded!

Work on this collaboratively with the 3 partners of your choice.
Due 5/9/13. On this date each student is to submit a minimum of 4 MWDS.

Yes it is a 100/50/0 grade.

Invisible Man Assignments

All assignments are posted on Turnitin with their respective Due dates. Please go to the site to see your assignment dates.

Chapter 12 - 4/22
Chapter 13 - 4/23
Chapter 14 - 16 - 4/24
Chapter 17/18 - 4/26
Chapter 19/20 - 4/28
Chapter 21/22 - 4/29
Chapter23/24 - 4/30
Epilogue - 5/2

Harlem Renaissance Webquest - Final Project Due 5/12

When you aren't reading the novel in class you will spend the week exploring the Harlem Renaissance. Your group will need to assign roles: You will need An Education/Political Historian,
A Musicologist (historian of all music of the period - see timeline), A Philosophy &  Religion Expert,
and an Art Historian.

Once you assign roles you will travel to HARLEM  and explore the multimedia platform for this project. The Art Historian will travel to Rhapsodies in Black . This video will be a useful introduction:Harlem Renaissance

Task: To assemble an 5 - 7 minute movie maker film that documents the Harlem Renaissance and connects it to Ellison's Invisible Man. You must clearly articulate the influence and representation of each sphere of influence.

Things to consider: Musical Soundtrack, Art Images, How to Organize your information.

Extra Credit: 15pts.

BlackWriting +5  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/timeline/harlemrenaissance.html   

What was the “high art” in black writing?

+5What was the difference between Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen’s views on black writing?

Criticism + 5  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/langston-hughes

Why was Hughes early work criticized by black intellectuals? What was Hughes response?

Chapters 5 - 12

I've created a Live Binder with Reading/Discussion Questions and media links to allusive content.
Please find it here: jessupsenglish Live Binder
The code is: OpticWhite

Due Dates:
Chapter 5 - 8 Thursday 4/17 
Guided Reading, ANSWERS ONLY, are to be posted  by chapter to turnitin.

Chapter 9 - 12 4/21
Guided Reading, ANSWERS ONLY, are to be posted  by chapter to turnitin.

The assignment will lock after 3 days late.


Please remember that you are accountable for your reading and i will pull quiz material from these binders on a consistent basis. I have some hard cover copies of the book you may check out. Should you lose one the cost is $35.00 and the school will hold your transcript and diploma. If you write in them you will owe the amount as well.

Invisible Man Prologue - Chapter 7

Please respond to the following with complete, detailed answers. One liners and Fragments will not be counted.

All students will be held accountable in Socratic Fishbowl  4/15

Invisible Man:  Prologue and Chapter One

1.   Explain how the narrator views history, as expressed in the Prologue.

2.   What does it mean to be a “thinker-tinker”?

3.   Explain the following quote:  “Responsibility rests upon recognition and recognition is a form of agreement.”

4.   What is the grandfather’s curse and how is it ironic?

5.   Chapter One, originally published before the rest of the novel as a short story called “Battle Royal,” can be seen as both a rite of passage and as an initiation.  Explain.

6.   Relate the following quote from Ellison’s essay, “Richard Wright’s Blues,” to the story told in Chapter One:

“The Blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of brutal experience alive in one’s aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy, but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism.”

Invisible Man:  Prologue - Chapter Seven

1.   Identify each of the following:

      Greenwood

      Burnside

      Matty Lou

      Homer Barbee

      the Founder

      Crenshaw

      Norton

      Trueblood

      the Golden Day

      Tatlock

2.   What is Dr. Bledsoe’s personal philosophy?

3.   Explain why the Invisible Man’s confrontation with Dr. Bledsoe is so devastating for him.

4.   Chapter Seven is generally considered a transitional chapter.  Explain.

5.   Explore the possible meanings of Trueblood’s narrative -- as an inversion of sexual taboos, “puttin’ on the massa” slave tale, racial purity symbolism, pure sexual titillation, truth, lie told to please, etc.

Visualized Poetry

Assignment: Presentations are Friday 4/11
Create a visual tapestry for a poetic text that supports the poem's theme and allusion.

At the end of your slide show create 6 slides that address the following elements in your poem:

Allusion and Context of Allusion

Language

Structure

Imagery and Sound

Theme

How does the Allusion inform the poem?