STUDENTS SHOULD CONTINUE RESEARCHING for three sources by American writers and artists that illustrate another take on the same theme of your researched novel. What do these two written and one visual sources say about that theme? After finding them, you will want to research what others have written about those sources. This is one way that can confirm that these sources are worth your consideration. If the story, poem, painting, or photograph isn’t sufficiently well known to have sustained the curiosity of the American audience, it might not be worth your study either.

MONDAY

Listening to a This American Life essay on the Ferguson, Missouri shooting of Michael Brown, specifically looking at the theme of violence against Black American men both in Ellison’s time and in our time. What is a thoughtful, interested American to think and do about racism? This is the essential question that the Invisible Man struggles with in his exile, and is something with which Ellison’s reader must also cope.
HW: You can listen to today’s report here. Tonight, read the first two document from the Awakening resource packet. In case you lose that, it'‘s also located here.

TUESDAY

Lecture on Chopin’s The Awakening. We will listen to chapters one through three.
HW: Finish reading chapter three, read chapter four and five.

WEDNESDAY

Continuing lecture, asking students to annotate for both Edna’s search for meaning—both personal identity, and social identity, and paying attention to nature as a metaphor for Edna’s search for meaning. We will read chapters six and seven together.
HW: Read handout #3, the background on Creole culture, as well as finishing chapter eight.

THURSDAY

Reading document #4, “The Book that Ruined Kate Chopin’s Career,” and then moving on to chapter nine and ten in the novella.
HW: Read chapters eleven through thirteen. Read handout six and seven, introductions to Betty Friedan’s “The Problem With No Name..”

MONDAY

Reading chapters fourteen through sixteen in class. We will then start on the first chapter of Friedan’s book. We may watch a selection from Makers: Women Who Make America.
HW: Finish reading document #8, from The Feminine Mystique.