Homework
Bring in a published review of your book. Read it and prepare to summarize it in class for the freewrite.
Bring in a headphone to watch a Frontline World program.
Bring in your POV essay. We are skipping the peer review this essay. I am grading them. Some students are turning in rough drafts, drafts they have not completed the self-check on. This is a waste of my time to read and your classmates. Other students did not follow directions on the title for the essay.
If you need help with formatting and spacing, visit the Open Lab in LRC.
Read the books. They are not hard to read, one just has to open them and do the work. This class is a reading and writing class.
Bring in a published review of your book. Read it and prepare to summarize it in class for the freewrite.
Bring in a headphone to watch a Frontline World program.
Bring in your POV essay. We are skipping the peer review this essay. I am grading them. Some students are turning in rough drafts, drafts they have not completed the self-check on. This is a waste of my time to read and your classmates. Other students did not follow directions on the title for the essay.
If you need help with formatting and spacing, visit the Open Lab in LRC.
Read the books. They are not hard to read, one just has to open them and do the work. This class is a reading and writing class.
posted by Professor Wanda's Posse at 11:46 AM
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The heroine, Sula, grows up in a household pulsing with larger-than-life people and activity, presided over by her powerful and probably sorcerous grandmother. Her gentle mother is devoted almost wholly to the practice and pleasures of sensuality. But her cherished friend Nel, the local goody-goody, plays perfect counterpoint to Sula's intense, life-grabbing insistence that eventually gets read as recklessness, and Sula becomes a threat as her life unfolds against the rest of the black community's daily life of hardship, humilation and scrabbling for survival.
"What was taken by outsiders to be slackness, slovenliness or generosity was in fact a full recognition of the legitmacy of forces other than good ones. They did not believe doctors could heal -- for them, none had ever done so. They did not believe death was accidental -- life might be, but death was deliberate . . . . The purpose of evil was to survive it and they determined (without ever knowing they had made up their minds to do it) to survive floods, white people, tuberculosis, famine and ignorance. They knew anger well but not despair, and they didn't stone sinners for the same reason they didn't commit suicide -- it was beneath them."
Audrey Topacio
English 1A
To see the article you need to log in to NY Times, but if searched on google, it will show up: http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/01/11/home/morrison-sula.html
to search on google type: SARA BLACKBURN SUla book review
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