YOU NOW BEGIN WRITING YOUR JUNIOR THEME. This week you are finally starting to summarize (in your own words) and selecting direct quotes (verbatim, by the writer) what other experts have written about YOUR NOVEL, and more precisely, a particular theme within your novel. You will do that for four authors, and post the bibliographic information, your indirect summary of the author's position, and a direct quote for each on the shared google sheet.

MONDAY

Meeting in the library to work on the thematic analysis of your novel.
HW: Get at least two of the sources entered in the google sheet tonight.

TUESDAY

Introduction to the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance, specifically "If We Must Die" by Claude McKay. Besides reading and discussing the poem, students will read four sources that look at the poem and the writer's work. Students will hand in their notes at the end of class.
HW: Revisit your annotations on the Frederick Douglass handout. I will collect those tomorrow. You should have completed two of the entries by tonight as well!

WEDNESDAY

Today we will look at the poem, "Tableau" by Countee Cullen. Just as yesterday, we will look into the poem through the lens of other writers. This is a model for exactly what you should be doing with your junior theme book!
HW: Read the handout of additional Harlem Renaissance poems.I will have hard copies in class today; here's a link in case you are absent. We will discuss them in class on Friday. Remember to keep notes on what you notice in the poems.

THURSDAY

Discussion of Harlem Renaissance poems. What connections do we see to Toni Morrison's Beloved?
HW: Finish reading Beloved for class on Tuesday.

FRIDAY

In the library. Today students will begin outlining a paper that describes the most important, least obvious theme that a) their author develops in the novel and b) other writers comment upon that same theme, also from the novel.
HW: Google sheet due Monday. Beloved due Tuesday.