Ellison's Prose and Hughes's Poetry: February 5, 2019

Focus: What larger, poetic patterns are starting to take form in Invisible Man?

1. Warming up with Ellison's good friend, Langston Hughes

2. Creating found poetry out of one of Hughes' poems and any of Ellison's pages that echo that poem

• What words or phrases from Hughes' poem make you pause / take a moment? Collect them!

• What scenes / symbols / settings / characters / motifs from Invisible Man do these words and phrases remind you of? Look up those scenes, and collect words and phrases from them.

• Reassemble your words and phrases to create a found poem.

• What did this process help you understand better or differently?

3. Offering you the gift of my new favorite website:
https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/ralph-ellison-an-american-journey/

• Try watching a few short videos on topics that interest you, and consider bringing a few gems of information into your next reading ticket!

HW:
1. For THURSDAY: Read through Chapter 21 and prepare a reading ticket. We will have Socratic on Thursday instead of Friday (and Wednesday will be largely a reading day).

2. For FRIDAY, FEB 8: Have your poem selected for the in-class metacognitive.