Week III: Announcement
Hi all,
I hope you enjoyed your reading of James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”–it’s one of my favorites!
As of today, I have graded all of the blogs (through blog #3). You can find your grades in Blackboard under “My Grades.” If you’re missing anything that should be there, let me know. Also, I will start putting in annotation grades today. And, I will start grading Paper 1 soon. If you have not turned in Paper 1, contact me ASAP.
This week we are reading two very different stories: “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula K Le Guin and “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison. Le Guin’s is a SciFi story that gets readers to think about an ethical dilemma, and as you read the story, you should think about how this dilemma might apply, allegorically, to our society. Toni Morrison’s story explores the problem of racial thinking through two the relationship that develops over the lifetimes of girls who are racially ambiguous throughout the story.
Here are the links and list of activities. Note: There is a link for the prompt for Paper 2, which will concern one of the stories from the syllabus and is due next week.
- Complete the following by Friday, 01/26:
- Review assignment for Paper 2
- Read:
- “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” by Ursula LeGuin
- “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison
- Create at least three annotations for each story using hypothes.is.
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