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
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.
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