ASSIGNMENT Read "Love and Hate” Read Hurston, "Sweat” and do reading log Work on your paper—listen to my comments
SONNY’S BLUES
QUESTIONS FOR LATER What conflicts might be resolved? What conflicts aren’t? Setting: what role does culture/environment play in shaping the two brothers? Why different from each other? Does the story offer any explanation for Sonny's addiction? Why 1st POV? What about his students?
CONFLICTS Write a list of 2-3 conflicts you remember. Internal External Setting
ANY TO ADD? Share your list of conflicts with 1-2 people around you. Any more you can come up with together?
POINTING PG. 461 What phrase standouts out to you from this section? What moved you or resonated with you? Mark them in your text or jot them down. When we stop, share your points with the class Pentecostal style. Rules: You don’t have to share. You can go as many times as you want to. You don’t have to explain why you picked it, just say it. No one gets exclusive rights to a line—if someone has already said it but you connect with it, that’s fine.
WRITE ABOUT A LINE Write about a line you pointed to or someone else pointed to, or another one entirely. Why is it important to the story’s meaning or puzzling for you. This doesn’t need to be polished up at all, but I do want you to do some serious writing here. Just write that line at the top of your page and go.
SHARE WRITING IN GROUPS. Please read you short piece to others in your group rather than tell about it—it actually more efficient to share this way and a more useful way of learning about your strengths as a writer. So don’t let anybody in your group get away with not reading.
QUESTIONS FOR NOW What conflicts might be resolved? What conflicts aren’t? Setting: what role does culture/environment play in shaping the two brothers? Why different from each other? Does the story offer any explanation for Sonny's addiction? Why 1st POV? What about his students?
ASSIGNMENT Read "Love and Hate” Read Hurston, "Sweat” and do reading log Work on your paper—listen to my comments