POST THE THREE NOVELS YOU’RE CONSIDERING onto the shared google-sheet “2018 Theme Novels” by class on Wednesday. For each book, you will want to include the following information: Author, Title, Year of Publication (not printed, first published), Catalog/Categories, and a short summary. The summary should be approx 50-150 words, and may be copied from a library overview OR from one of the NT Library databases. It may NOT be copied from Amazon or a google-found site.

MONDAY

Introduction to the google-sheet on theme novels. We will identify author, title, publication date, catalog groupings, and a short summary for Ellison’s Invisible Man. We will then turn our attention to chapter three of IM, the Golden Day chapter. I will write some notes while listening to the recording.
HW: Finish reading chapter three of IM.

TUESDAY

We meet the de-facto leader of the college, Dr. Bledsoe, who seems inclined to punish the IM for bringing Mr. Norton to the former slave-quarter / share-cropping section of the campus. What is in store for the IM?
HW: Read chapter four tonight, pages 98-108.

WEDNESDAY

Today we will look at Rev. Barbee's sermon, and also read a short biography of Booker T. Washington, the actual founder of the Tuskegee University, and the person on which Ellison bases "The Founder." Here's a link to the biography we looked at in class: go here.
HW: Continue reading in chapter five tonight, up through and including page 123.

THURSDAY

Small group reading of a handout on the literary tradition of black-sermon’s in America. We will also watch a sermon by Rev. C.L. Franklin, the father of late singer Aretha Franklin.
HW: Finish reading chapter five.

FRIDAY

Research day on selected novels. Please make sure that your ipad/laptop is fully charged and ready for use in class today. We will begin researching what published critics have said about your three, selected novels.
HW: Read chapters six and seven in IM. Locate, print, and skim through two credible critiques/sources on each of your three novels (six sources total).