Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Poetry and ALBD

Hi Class!

Choose one of the poems listed below. Then, post your thoughts on that poem in relation to ALBD. This requires serious thought and analysis. Make comparisons, make inferences, draw conclusions, decode symbols, and take this seriously. The best analysis (as voted on by your peers) will win the blogging trophy. Good luck!

If We Must Die by Claude McKay
Mother to Son by Langston Hughes
Various Poems by Wili Otee

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Chapters 18-19

Go back through chapters 18 and 19. Find one passage in each chapter you had underlined/annotated in some way because it stood out to you as something important. Type the passage (cite it correctly!) and post your comments about its importance to the novel as a whole, its symbolic value, or whatever other reason you may have annotated it.