On Monday, we’ll be going to the Brooklyn Historical Society. That means that we won’t be in our classroom. Please meet promptly at 11:30 or prior inside the Adams Street entrance to City Tech (near the entrance to the bookstore). We will leave from there and travel the short distance to the Brooklyn Historical Society at 128 Pierrepont Street at Clinton Street. If you’re going directly to BHS, we should be there no later than 11:40.
We’ll be looking at runaway slave advertisements, plus a few other documents. For your reading assignment, you need to finish Part One of Beloved and read as much of the chapter on Runaway Slaves that I distributed in class that you can. If you didn’t get it in class, look for it in our list of readings.
For those of you who are blogging by end-of-day Saturday, you can blog about narration style or memory (the two prior assignments)–but please do not repeat what anyone else blogged about. Also, for the question on memory, please do not blog about something that is a memory in the novel, but about a reflection about memory. We talked briefly about Paul D’s rusted-shut tobacco box in the place where his heart was–that would be a great topic for a blog post!
When we read short stories, we agreed that it was harder to consider characterization than it would be when we would have such rich characters in a novel. For a new topic, choose one character and a quotation that you think exemplifies the character. How do you learn what you know about the character? What does the passage you’ve chosen tell you about that character, and how? Remember to write at least 300 words, and to choose the category Homework, plus any tags you think are fitting.
Commenters, in your 150 words, remember what you’re not saying? I agree! You’re going to find different ways to communicate your ideas. Maybe you’re going to disagree! Maybe you’re going to fill in something that the blogger didn’t focus on. Maybe you’re going to explain further what the blogger started to describe or address. I’m very excited to see the results!
