Illuminating the Patterns: January 22, 2018

Focus: What larger meaning can start to make of the patterns in Invisible Man?

1. Warming up with three good things and a quick explanation of jazz

2. Taking moments from Chapter 1 and exploring how they play out in Chapters 2-9

The narrator's speech

The white lady

The chaos of the Battle Royal

Tatlock

The blindfolds

The arena

The electrified rug

The coins

The briefcase

The scholarship
The grandfather's advice

Make yourself a big, messy chart in which you focus on a few of the items above and explore how they resurface in subsequent chapters, perhaps in slightly altered forms.

How does it change? How does it stay the same?
What does Ellison's structure have to do with jazz?

3. Enjoying a Socratic Seminar on Chapters 6, 7, and 8

4. Wrapping up with questions, epiphanies, and kudos

HW:
1. Will have a prose-based timed writing on Tuesday.

2. For Wednesday:

• Read Chapter 10 in Invisible Man. NO Socratic ticket needed, but feel free to incorporate this chapter into your reading ticket for Friday.
• Review Academic Vocabulary, Units 1 AND 2 (short quiz on Wed).

3. For Friday: Read Chapters 11, 12, and 13 in Invisible Man; prepare a Socratic ticket.