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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Subjectivity and Representation at the end of Book 1 of Beloved

In the first part of class today, you read and discussed chapters 16-18, and how each one represents a different perspective on the same event.
Then you did a close reading of some of those passages, keeping track of key details, descriptive words, figurative language, structure, and the "goal" of each perspective.
Now, you will put that information together in a Venn diagram.
Click here for a template for your group to use.
Your group will need only one computer to enter the evidence you found.
Be sure to print out a copy for each member of your group and one to sumbit to us.
(20 minutes)

Then, individually, you will write a paragraph response, exploring the ways in which values and identity shape the ways in which a narrator recounts an event.  Be sure to make use of the evidence on your diagram as a way of naming the similarities and differences.
(30 minutes)

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