Redacting: November 9, 2017

Focus: How can we use the process of redacting to better understand a text?

1. Warming up with the myth of the happy slave

• What stands out to you in each image?

• What specific myth of slavery does each image propagate, and for what purpose?

• For each slide, find one line from Beloved that undoes the myth.

2. Discovering the method and purpose of the redaction poem (and looking at two of your examples)

https://tychogirl.wordpress.com/tag/poetry/page/24/

• Using the redaction poem to understand a slave narrative

• Trying out a redaction poem on a page from Chapters 1-4 of Beloved

3. Sharing and discussing your redaction poems in a gallery walk

• What do the redaction poems help you understand better or differently?

HW:
For tomorrow:

• Please read Chapters 5, 6, 7, and 8 in Beloved. Complete your next reading ticket following the new Socratic ticket guidelines. If you'd like more of a focus, trying focusing your ticket on one word you've taken notice of the in the novel so far (perhaps because it's repeated, or because Morrison's using it in a new way).

• All revisions, make-up work, etc. from the past 6 weeks is due by Friday, Nov 10.