Welcome Back! January 8, 2019

Focus: How do we address the meaning of the work as a whole?

1. Warming up with three good things and poetic gift for the New Year

2. Indulging in an intensive workshop on your Beloved essays

3. Exploring the rubric and two sample essays to reflect on your own writing

4. Perusing this semester's course syllabus and upcoming items; distributing Invisible Man

5. Enjoying a little freewriting on the book's title:

• What does it mean to be invisible?
• In our society, who's invisible? Who's visible?
• In what ways is invisibility be empowering?
• In what ways is invisibility disempowering?
• How visible are you?
• Why is important to be talking about (in)visibility right now, in 2018?

HW:
1. Return your signed class syllabus by Thursday, January 10.

2. Strongly consider purchasing your own copy of Ellison's Invisible Man.

3. Read the Prologue and Chapter 1 of Invisible Man by Friday; prepare your first reading ticket for Friday's Socratic.