1. Warming up with collecting our thoughts (literally), musical chairs-style
- In your composition notebook, dedicate a page to "Collecting Part 2."
- Divide your page into three sections:
- 1. Important objects
- 2. Important descriptions of settings and/or characters
- 3. Important quotations and/or page #s
- As you roam from ticket to ticket, gather your thoughts for Socratic today by jotting down the objects, setting/character descriptions, and quotations you're seeing in others' tickets.
- Anytime something comes up on TWO or more tickets, write it on one of the whiteboards.
As you participate in Socratic today, here's what I want you to jot down:
- How was something clarified for you?
- How was your thinking on something deepened?
- What are you still wondering?
3. Wrapping up with kudos, epiphanies, and lingering questions
HW:
1. WEDNESDAY: We will have a short assessment on Academic Vocabulary, List 4. We will not have much time to review in class, so please review on your own. Also, LAPTOPS WILL NOT BE PERMITTED ON READING DAYS FROM NOW ON.
2. FRIDAY: Read through the first half of Part 3 (to about page 310); create your ticket for our Socratic.
3. For next TUESDAY, FEB 18: Share with me your poetry thesis (along with any outlining you have) or your project plan.
Thanks, Daniel, for scribing! Here is post 1 of 3...
ReplyDeleteSocratic: Beloved Part 2
‘Wrap Up/Warm Up’: One thing you want to make sure is talked about in class today
The style of writing in the more poetic chapters
The people without skin
Jungle
Bridge motif
Number 3
Chapter 22
Color, specifically the order that colors come in the book
“Nobody saw them falling”\
Movement
Denvers feelings toward her family
Significance of escaping from Sweet Home
“She is mine. I am beloved”
Why Morrison defends Sethe
Ice skating scene
Beloved chapters. Where she was
Discussion:
Confusion over chapter from Beloveds perspective
Way of looking into her past/consciousness?
Water and clouds--> resurrection scene
She comes out of water--> Biblical reference of the Earth rising out of water
Pg 251
Bridge motif: bridge between life and death (ch 21?)
Dead man’s face, Beloved’s father?
Halle and Beloved both exist together in realm of the dead
Halle carries Beloved back to life
Halle in the clouds (in the sky) Beloved in the water (on the ground)
Afterlife vs life. Beloved unable to reach the afterlife
Thomas Foster chapter on water
Rain supposed to be cleansing
Why did Morrison finally include Beloved’s perspective here?
When is the Beloved chapter happening?
Before or after being found by Sethe?
Is this her perspective as a ghost
Halle being dead, pg 249
“I cannot find my man, the one whose teeth I have loved”
Halle most like the man reffered to
Circle= noose? Halle lynched?
Raining when they escaped Sweet Home
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ReplyDeleteWhat does Beloved mean about “the men without skin”?
Most likely referring to the white men
White men like skeletons, don’t treat others as human and therefor arent human themselves. Cruel and dead
Skin gives protection, security? Skin protects, conceals the soul
Beloved’s skin protects who she really is (is she human?)
Pg 249
Chapter: Slave ships
Bread is the sea, throwing people out of windows
People pilled on top of each other, storms “rock us”
“I cannot fall because there is no room”
Or could it be Beloved’s perspective right before she comes out of the water?
Conscious ambiguity
Conflict between the book being about Beloved being a ‘ghost’
But slavery (the slave ship) is the ghost of the collective identity of African Americans
Slavery is “not living” (metaphorically, literally, up to you)
Afterlife replaced with the slave ship experience
Going back to the legacy of previous slaves
Only character actually mentioned to be on a slave ship is Sethe’s Daughter
What is Beloved?
Lense through which we as readers experience the past
Conflict between Beloved being interpreted as an Evil spirit, and now being portrayed as more “human” and “normal”
Sethe open about seeing her as her daughter
Conscious ambiguity?
Style of writing in the chapters reflects Beloved’s character
No punctuation, just spaces
Readers read it “recklessly”
Ice skating scene, stagnant. Locking into one moment
Avoiding confronting the past or looking to the future
Trying to escape time
Beloved very much tied to the past, reflective of it. Reflects our countries attitude as a whole to acknowledging slavery as something that happened
Doesn’t seem to affect Women
All men in the house have left or felt uncomfortable
Sethe, Denver, and others blinded by being in the mix of things
Symbolizes the power of Sethe’s past trauma has over her
Sethe has invited her past to invade her present (physically in the form of Beloved)
Beloved brings out the emotional side of Sethe’s past, Paul D brings out the more rational side
No longer deteriorating
Sethe finally giving her attention, which feeds Beloved’s form
How should readers view the situation at 124 now?
Happy, or antisocial?
Feels dangerous because they’re isolated with each other
Gothic element of isolation: unsettling, uncanny
Isolation and the watcher
Isolation: Baby Suggs isolated by community right before School teacher arrives
Isolation invites vulnerability, now is extreme in 124
Reminiscent of The Shining
Stamp can no longer approach 124
“Looks and peeks through the door”
Felt very disturbed by Beloved
An outsider watching in
Setting up for something...
Don't trust Beloved or her motivations
And I actually don't need a 3rd post, but thanks!
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