Class:
Received grammar packets and completed page 1
Reviewed the social mobility assignment from last night and added more perspective. If you don't have a quotation and much analysis within your journal, you need to add more insight tonight on the same sheet of paper to submit tomorrow!
Finished reading act 2, scene 2 in class
Watched an August Wilson video on the black experience and his cultural background...if you would like to view the video again, you can search it on pbs.org or simply google August Wilson interview with Bill Moyers and it is the first link to appear.
Homework:
Motif assignment (ignore number 1 and begin with number 2)- Select any motif from the Piano Lesson and write a paragraph about why the appearance of your motif is important to the text. What does it offer to the plotline? What does it say about the characters? How do the characters interact with your motif? What does it say about the greater text?
Secondly, answer the two questions in relation to the video on the same sheet of paper you wrote about social mobility from Tuesday's assignment.
1) What does August Wilson say about how blues music played a large role in inspiring him to write?
2) What does August Wilson think about having your own culture without becoming the "main culture"?
For Renee!
Received grammar packets and completed page 1
Reviewed the social mobility assignment from last night and added more perspective. If you don't have a quotation and much analysis within your journal, you need to add more insight tonight on the same sheet of paper to submit tomorrow!
Finished reading act 2, scene 2 in class
Watched an August Wilson video on the black experience and his cultural background...if you would like to view the video again, you can search it on pbs.org or simply google August Wilson interview with Bill Moyers and it is the first link to appear.
Homework:
Motif assignment (ignore number 1 and begin with number 2)- Select any motif from the Piano Lesson and write a paragraph about why the appearance of your motif is important to the text. What does it offer to the plotline? What does it say about the characters? How do the characters interact with your motif? What does it say about the greater text?
Secondly, answer the two questions in relation to the video on the same sheet of paper you wrote about social mobility from Tuesday's assignment.
1) What does August Wilson say about how blues music played a large role in inspiring him to write?
2) What does August Wilson think about having your own culture without becoming the "main culture"?
For Renee!
Langston Hughes on the n-word:
Used rightly or wrongly,
ironically or seriously, of necessity for the sake of realism, or impishly for
the sake of comedy, it doesn't matter. Negroes do not like it in any book or
play whatsoever, be the book or play ever so sympathetic in its treatment of
the basic problems of the race. Even though the book or play is written by a
Negro, they still do not like it. The word nigger, you see, sums up for us who
are colored all the bitter years of insult and struggle in America.
1)
how might
one, (if possible) defend the usage of the n-word?
2)
Is the
negative history of a word ever truly erased when it’s used more commonly in a
different context?
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