Read Hughes, "Harlem" 328 "I, Too," 337 Read McKay "If We Must Die" 328 Read Cullen "Incident," 139 Do a reading log for each

What’s It Mean? Who’s Right?

Evidence from the text Helps us make sense of the text as a whole

Sometimes a reading will be strongly supported by evidence from the text and other sources. Sometimes a reading is less strongly supported but is still plausible. Sometimes opposing readings seem equally strong.

Look at your statement to you about this poem and how to read it. Please do not show it to anyone else. Gather evidence and try to effectively argue your view. I'll read the poem aloud once, then please read the poem silently to yourself and gather at least 3 pieces of evidence to support your view.

Great literature leaves gaps. We face “gaps” and interpretive uncertainties in other places: Dating & Marriage Workplace communication Interpretation of scientific evidence Legal contracts Sporting rules City, State, Federal law

[We can expect as much disagreement about the meaning of literary texts as we do]…from the discourse of the legal profession or from that of social workers, diplomats, psychologists, physicians, husbands and wives, upon whose utterances and interpretations the health and happiness of real, not fictional, human beings may daily depend. The reality is that all human beings live in a sea of texts, where our survival and happiness depend on our ability to read the language.…(Blau77)

Please pick out a line you think shows a similarity or difference from “The Road Not Taken.” Images nature, symbolic use of seasons? Facing an uncertainty? How we view life? Community & Individual? Death / Old Age? ??? Brainstorm ways of talking about these together

Bandy, Stephen C. “‘One of My Babies’: The Misfit and the Grandmother.” Studies in Short Fiction 33.1 (1996): Print. Blau, Sheridan. The Literature Workshop: Teaching Texts and Their Readers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, Print.