Homework Due 5/13 & 5/14

Catch up and make up your missing work!!!

Catch up on your reading!
Write your close readings!
Learn about Freire's "Culture of Silence"!

Homework for STAR Testing Week

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Homework Due 5/5

1. Write a close reading of Morrison’s symbolic imagery used either in the scene where Halle becomes “broken” (82.5-83.7) or where Paul D is juxtaposed to Mister the Rooster (85.1-86.8).
2. Assignment should be typed and emailed to devin@ucla.edu before class begins on Monday.
3. Please consult the website I designed to help you with this assignment: http://lpsessaywriting.wordpress.com/
4. Finish making notes on the passages we didn’t get to discuss in class.

Chapter 5:

Beloved’s reincarnation (60.4-61.10)


Chapter 6:

“Where your diamonds?” … “like a tender place in the corner of her mouth that the bit left.” (69.4-69.8)

"My woman? You mean my mother?” … “I didn’t understand it then. Not till I had a mark of my own.” (72.5-73.4)

“What Nan told her she had forgotten, along with the language she told it in.” (73.10-74.6)

Chapter 7:

Halle broken & Sethe’s Greedy Brain (82.5-83.7)

Paul D & Mister the Rooster (85.1-86.8)


Chapter 9:

“I’m small in that place.” (88.4)

Denver’s birth

Homework Due 4/22 & 4/23

1. Read the rest of Chapter 1, annotating once per page
2. Come prepared with four questions on a separate sheet of paper about the text that you will discuss in small groups: Two questions must be surface level (Who? What? When? Where?) Two questions must be beneath the surface (Why? How?)
3. As you read, constantly try to answer this question: How is Morrison’s writing style an attempt to “pull back the veil” and expose the interior lives of former slaves?

Beloved Homework: Due Monday 4/21/08

1. Read the excerpt from Morrison's chapter entitled "The Site of Memory". Remember why you are reading: You are trying to determine WHY Morrison writes and, in particular, why she wrote Beloved.
   
2. Answer the related questions to the four passages from the handout (copied below).
   

Guiding Questions for “The Site of Memory”
by Toni Morrison

For these questions, pay attention to the numbered passages in the text that begin and end with brackets.

PASSAGE #1: According to Morrison, why did freed slaves write their narratives? Provide one quotation to support your answer.

PASSAGE #2: How does Morrison view literacy? What is literacy’s relationship to slavery?

PASSAGE #3: In this passage, Morrison quotes the following sentence: “But let us drop a veil over these proceedings too terrible to relate” (110.1). She goes on to explain this phrase. What does this phrase mean?

What does Morrison think her job is since many previous writers “dropped the veil” over their writing?

PASSAGE #4: How does Morrison use imagination as a tool to help her writing?

What is Morrison trying to with the “interior life of people who didn’t write it (which doesn’t mean that they didn’t have it)” (113.6)?

Sex, Love, and Power Mini-Essay (due 4/7)

Consider Winston and Julia’s relationship in 1984. In a mini-essay, explore the relationship between sex, love, and power as viewed in Oceania. More specifically, your essay should directly answer the following questions: How are love and sex viewed by INGSOC? What message is Orwell communicating about the power of love and sex?

Your essay should be at least four paragraphs in length. It should include a brief introduction with a thesis statement that directly answers the essay questions, two body paragraphs that closely examine three quotations from the text, and a brief conclusion that builds upon the original thesis statement.

Email your essay to devin@ucla.edu before class begins on Monday, April 7th. Hand written copies will also be accepted but digital copies are preferred.

Homework Due 4/1 & 4/2

1. Read & Annotate Chapter 1 of Book 3 from 1984.
2. Turn in any missing work.
3. Work on Sex, Love, and Power mini-essay due Monday, 4/7 (see post for assignment)