BY WEDNESDAY, YOU SHOULD OWN A COPY of your independent novel. When you annotate, besides circling vocabulary and writing your questions, attempt to define the novel’s theme. Put another way, if the novel itself is the author’s response to a question, what question does the novel address? On Wednesday in class, you will create a homework chart for yourself, planning on reading the novel outside of class over a three week period. You will be responsible for completing this task on your own. I will check novels at the half-way point, and we will conduct a page one analysis in class on Wednesday to kick off the reading.

MONDAY

Day two of Br’er Rabbit. We will look at the tar baby cartoon, and attempt to read, aloud, some fo Joel Chandler Harris’s tales. “"Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear” as well as “Mr. Bear Catches Old Mr. Bull-Frog.” Note: If Br’er Rabbit is the analogue for Black Americans trying to survive a violent south, Br’er Fox and Br’er Rabbit are the analogues for dumb and violent White Americans (another, and also offensive, stereotype).
HW: You should have finished chapter 13 for class on Wednesday.

TUESDAY

Chapter 12 discussion: who is Mary? How is the IM beginning to fight back against his type (but dumping the spittoon on the Reverend’s head and getting expelled from the Men’s House—his third expulsion so far!)? We will also get to the Langston Hughes poem, “Let America Be America Again.”
HW: Spend some time researching your novel. Remember, you want to use the literature resources from NT Library to locate journal articles and other written works that analyze your novel in depth (greater than what a book review might cover).

WEDNESDAY

Analysis of chapter 13, the eviction of the Provo couple, and the second speech that the IM gives, this time to a black audience, and the IM’s introduction to the Brotherhood.
HW: Begin reading the novel for your theme research project.

THURSDAY

We will begin reading chapter 14 together, in which the IM gets his new name (we don’t know what it is) from the Brotherhood, and he gives his first speech.
HW: Reading your theme novel.

FRIDAY

In library, again. Mr. Stu will review Noodle bid. You will receive your first junior theme research assignment: five sources on your bib: 2 book reviews, and 3 journal articles/chapters on your novel.
HW: You should have read your theme novel by March 7. Plan accordingly.