COURSE BASICS
Three Platforms
Website
Weekly agenda, general information, and materials
PowerSchool
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Email
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Additional Support
Writing Center: Before School (A266) and During Lunch (A217)
English Tutoring: Mon-Thu 1:50-2:50 (A204)
Office Hours: Mon-Fri 2:00-2:30 (by appointment)
WEEK 9: THE BLUEST EYE
Preface
Ideal vs. Real
Why? vs. How?
Autumn
Family and Community
What is the "hem of life"?
Why does Claudia "hate white baby dolls"?
"How do you get somebody to love you?"
HEREISTHEHOUSEITISGREENANDWHITE
House vs. Home
What is the "only living thing in the Breedloves' house?
HEREISTHEFAMILYMOTHERFATHERDICKANDJANE
"Please make me disappear"
Who defines beauty?
What is ugliness?
What are the "dandelions"?
Winter
Beauty and Worth
Race and Beauty
Contempt and Self-Contempt
How do we handle our hurt: stand up or fold up?
SEETHECATTHECATGOESMEOWMEOW
Who are "They"?
Why are Geraldine and Junior important?
Spring
SEEMOTHERMOTHERISVERYNICE
How a Dream Dies
Alienation and Loneliness
Movie Love
SEEFATHERHEISBIGANDSTRONG
How to Build a Monster
Theft of Innocence
"Dangerously Free"
SEETHEDOGGOBOWWOWBOWWOWGOESTHEDOG
Internalization and Self-Loathing
Summer
LOOKLOOKHERECOMESAFRIEND
WEEKLY AGENDA
MONDAY
Read: Preface
Homework
TUESDAY
Read: “Autumn” (pp 9-32)
WEDNESDAY
Classwork: Distilled Notes
Read: “Autumn” (pp 33-37)
THURSDAY
Read: “Autumn” (pp 38-58)
Homework
FRIDAY
Read: “Winter” (pp 61-93)
WEEKEND
COURSE OVERVIEW
LITERARY ANALYSIS
LECTURES
Anatomy of a Novel
Slaughterhouse-Five
Bluest Eye
Never Let Me Go
WRITING
One-Page Essay
Writing Resources
