Focus: What does it mean to plunge outside history?
1. Warming up musical chairs and a quick inside vs. outside history whiteboard activity
2. Enjoying a Socratic Seminar on Invisible Man, Chapters 17-20
3. Wrapping up with questions, kudos, and epiphanies
HW:
1. Please read Chapters 21, 22, and 23 for Monday and prepare a ticket. THIS IS YOUR PENULTIMATE SOCRATIC OF YOUR ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL CAREER! WE'RE GOING FOR 100% PARTICIPATION NEXT WEEK!
2. Start looking for a poetry paper/project poem; it must be from a different time period than the one you selected last semester. We will be briefly recapping the paper/project tomorrow in class. You will need your poem by Thursday, Feb 8 for your metacognitive.
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February 2 2018
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Outside of history vs Inside of history:
Jake: Falling in with racial stereotypes, you leave behind your influence to be a part of history.
Lindsay: Making change makes you inside history, failing to do so sets you outside of history.
Griffin: Inside vs outside of history is determined not in the moment, but in the future when people look back. There are plenty of active characters in history that could be considered outside of history. Inside of history people are who we choose to remember.
Jake: “taking the plunge” is intentional, it is an active choice vs when you are pushed it is more passive, so people choose to not take part in history.
Leclaire: People who are inside of history get to decide which and how stories are passed on.
Bella: it is never possible to get the whole story so how can someone determine what is important and not important. What is essential? Example of the polished shackle and Tarp’s shackle. Inside of history only shows the “nice” parts of slavery.
Griffin: People who choose to plunge with what is not in tune with society at that time, that is the way to step outside of the bounds of inside or outside of history.
Ryan: if you resist something you give it justification.
Griffin: the fact that the doll is strung up by its neck reminds me of lynching.
Jessie: shake him but you can’t break him represents the emotional part of the abuse, not just the physical pain they went through
Lindsay: pg 431 idea behind the doll
Bella: how can clifton work with the brotherhood but then go around selling sambo dolls? Did clifton recognize he was being used, so then that he would take power into his own hands and use his race to his own advantage?
Griffin: did Clifton anticipate that he was going to be shot? Or did he not know that messing with the police would cause trouble?
Drew: the way Clifton went down was a way that mattered, so he could somehow contribute to something
Leclaire: reminds me of the grandpa’s advice pg 16.
Griffin: the narrator says “I am what they think I am” instead of “I am what I am”
Bella: now even if the narrator is subconsciously doing things for himself, but he means to help the brotherhood, he has bought into the brotherhood’s ideology.
Encounter with the white lady
Jessie: the encounter with the white lady made me very tense, why wasn’t he caught?
Jake: any similarities to the white woman from Battle Royal? The narrator was drawn to them both, they are both instruments for pleasure.
Griffin: discortantly invisible (refers to himself, the narrator) yet you can’t see his conflict, but you can see the white woman’s conflict. Them getting together kind of referred to harmony being reached.
Anna: pg 414 the narrator is almost chained to himself with his biological instincts. Is he still enslaved to the brotherhood?
Lindsay: are white women a symbol of freedom? When the narrator is with a white woman, he does not have power and he is not free, yet society uses white women to suggest that they provide freedom for black men.
Leclaire: communism, civil rights, women question are coming together. There is no equality in these movements.
Wrap Up:
Kennedy: read found poem, each chapter has a different personality that is shown through the narrator
Scott: the narrators obsessive habits he has with things has become a pattern
Sammie: the shackle that Bledsoe had connections all the way back to battle royal even
Kinsey: “theory always comes after practice” but the narrator can’t have a theory, the brotherhood just wants him to talk
Brennen: crushing of the sambo doll reminds her of how much power the doll has
Braxton: effects of slavery
Noah: Ras was firing people up on the streets in protest shows that the brotherhood and nationalists don’t have that much power because they are still playing into the system.
Julia: The doll is a symbol for the resilience of black people.
Ryan: the commodification of black people and women represent how patriarchy and racism can keep the excluded people divided so they cannot effectively unite against the power.